Stabbing The Drama · Soilwork

157 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-52, 55-57 and 83-84, and 7 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
STABBING THE DRAMA · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 19 and 45 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 18 sections: 72 keep time, 51 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-113.

PART G
PART L
PART S
PART G
CHORUS
PART S
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART AQ
OUTRO
10 groovesXGSLAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stabbing The Drama?

150 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 Stabbing The Drama hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Stabbing The Drama?

27 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 19 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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