Sour Soul · BADBADNOTGOOD, Ghostface Killah

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-7 and 9, and 3 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SOUR SOUL · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 17, 21, 45, 47, 49 and 2 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 5 sections: 38 keep time, 8 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-42.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBLFDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sour Soul?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sour Soul hard to play on drums?

41 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sour Soul?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 17, 21, 45, 47, 49 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 56 BARS ANALYSED
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