Sober · Tool

190 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-32, and 5 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
SOBER · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 9, 49, 57, 69, 80 and 9 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 14 sections: 148 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-48.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART J
OUTRO
9 groovesDJHZA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sober?

152 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?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sober?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 9, 49, 57, 69, 80 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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