The Lost Souls · AFI

117 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-30, 34 and 36-39, and 9 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
THE LOST SOULS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, 33 and 20 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 79 keep time, 26 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

PART C
CHORUS
PART S
PART Y
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHSYCAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lost Souls?

175 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 The Lost Souls hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Lost Souls?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, 33 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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