Transparent Soul ft. Travis Barker · Willow

122 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-19, 21-34 and 53-60 -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
TRANSPARENT SOUL FT. TRAVIS BARKER · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 8 sections: 79 keep time, 17 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-106.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART I
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDISMQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Transparent Soul ft. Travis Barker?

180 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 Transparent Soul ft. Travis Barker hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 Transparent Soul ft. Travis Barker?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 36 and 11 more.

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