Synthetic Soul · I Prevail

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-34, 37-38 and 41-42, and 10 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SYNTHETIC SOUL · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 24, 44, 60, 64, 70 and 1 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 13 sections: 49 keep time, 7 are fills, 16 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-23.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Y
OUTRO
11 groovesINYBF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Synthetic Soul?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Synthetic Soul hard to play on drums?

56 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Synthetic Soul?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 24, 44, 60, 64, 70 and 1 more.

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