Surgery of the Soul · Lipoma

122 bars at 209 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 9 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 209 BPM
SURGERY OF THE SOUL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 25, 32 and 16 more.

LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 22 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-88.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGLNA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Surgery of the Soul?

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

Is Surgery of the Soul hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Surgery of the Soul?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 25, 32 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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