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Taking Back My Soul · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 5 OF 76
Groove D
64 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Taking Back My Soul on drums

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.

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

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

toms through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-13, ride through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-32 and ride through bars 33-38, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Taking Back My Soul -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 1-15 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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