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Surgery of the Soul · Lipoma

EXERCISE 26 OF 41
2-bar fill at bar 32 and 2 more
114 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surgery of the Soul on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, snare through bars 17-31, toms through bars 32-33 and snare through bars 34-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Surgery of the Soul -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-122 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-45 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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