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San Sebastian (Revisited) · Sonata Arctica

EXERCISE 29 OF 37
Run M1 · Part M (bars 123-132)
168 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART M
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACRMHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play San Sebastian (Revisited) on drums

192 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
90/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, ride through bars 73-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-149, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 33-39, and 8 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
San Sebastian (Revisited) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-98 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 93-113 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 123-175 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is San Sebastian (Revisited)?

170 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 San Sebastian (Revisited) hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 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 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 San Sebastian (Revisited)?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED