Taking Back My Soul · Arch Enemy

171 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-87, 89-94 and 105-112 -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TAKING BACK MY SOUL · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 41, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 12 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 21 sections: 121 keep time, 18 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-119.

PART B
PART I
PART I
PART O
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
13 groovesSVJIF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Taking Back My Soul?

140 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 Taking Back My Soul hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Taking Back My Soul?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 41, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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