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EXERCISE 6 OF 41
Groove B -- Part B
41 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Synthetic Soul on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-31, snare through bars 32-48 and silence through bars 49-53, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33                               34
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------x-x-x-|
BD |x-------------------------------|x-----x-----x-------------------|
Synthetic Soul -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase), I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-49 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED