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Gone Sovereign · Stone Sour

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove K -- Chorus
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0 / 51 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKCNIM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gone Sovereign on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-14, silence through bars 15-16, toms through bars 17-19 and snare through bars 20-21, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------x--------x-----x--------|
Gone Sovereign -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-97 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-43 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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