Gone Sovereign · Stone Sour

106 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 47-51 and 53-54, and 5 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
GONE SOVEREIGN · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29 and 16 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 17-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 37-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 13 sections: 50 keep time, 22 are fills, 14 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-54.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKCNIM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gone Sovereign?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Gone Sovereign hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 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 Gone Sovereign?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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