winning the soul · teio

187 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 51-53 and 78-80, and 5 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
WINNING THE SOUL · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 9, 22, 24, 26, 30 and 45 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 30 sections: 80 keep time, 51 are fills, 19 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-104.

PART U
CHORUS 4
PART AO
PART AH
OUTRO 2
18 groovesLCRES+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is winning the soul?

190 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 winning the soul hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 winning the soul?

21 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 9, 22, 24, 26, 30 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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