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The Lost Souls · AFI

EXERCISE 7 OF 46
3-bar fill at bar 15
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0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Lost Souls on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, toms through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-39, ride through bars 40-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-57, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
The Lost Souls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H, Y -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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