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Sober · Butterfingers

EXERCISE 11 OF 24
Join Part G to Chorus 2 (bars 31-33)
105 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sober on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
42/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-51, toms through bars 52-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 34-42 and 44-50, and 6 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------------x---|
HH |o---o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Sober -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 97, 99, 101 and 103.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D, G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 10-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-100 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sober?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sober hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sober?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 97, 99, 101 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED