Soupe aux choux · soupe au choux

38 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 1:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
38
LENGTH
1:11
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 16-17 and 19-24 -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 129 BPM
SOUPE AUX CHOUX · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 26 and 38.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 38
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

38 bars across 5 sections: 29 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-16.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABFHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soupe aux choux?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Soupe aux choux hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

38 bars, about 1:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Soupe aux choux?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 26 and 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 38 BARS ANALYSED
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