ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play soy hacker on drums

84 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 180 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 84
LENGTH: 1:54
DIFFICULTY: 88/100

ride through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-24, silence through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-34 and snare through bars 35-38, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-10, 20-24 and 73-82 -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                                2
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------x---x-------|x-------x-----------------------|
RD |----x-------x-------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------------------------------|----------------o--o-o--o--o-o--|
SD |--------x-------x-----------x---|----------------x--x-x--x--x-x--|
BD |x-x-x---------------x---x-------|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|

soy hacker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 19, 29, 30 and 31.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 16-32 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Through Part S4 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part J and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is soy hacker?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is soy hacker hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 soy hacker?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 19, 29, 30 and 31.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED