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Stabbing The Drama · Soilwork

EXERCISE 18 OF 92
Run B1 · Part B (bars 5-10)
71 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stabbing The Drama on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34, snare through bars 35-50, ride through bars 51-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-66, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51               52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x---x-|--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|x-----x-------x-|
Stabbing The Drama -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- X, G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-27 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-27 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part S and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-51 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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