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Soulshine · The Allman Brothers Band

EXERCISE 4 OF 27
Groove E
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0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCDOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soulshine on drums

113 bars, 6:36, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
39/100

ride through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-7, ride through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-23, ride through bars 24-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-39, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 25 and 41, and 7 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Soulshine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 40, 61, 72, 73, 80 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 68-97 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Soulshine?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Soulshine hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Soulshine?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 40, 61, 72, 73, 80 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED