Somehow · Woods Of Desolation

309 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 113 BPM, 9:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
309
LENGTH
9:05
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 229-242, 245-258 and 261-274, and 1 more place -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
SOMEHOW · BAR 229
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 36 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

309 bars across 7 sections: 219 keep time, 42 are fills, 30 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-146.

PART A
PART C
PART F
PART S4
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesWSOAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somehow?

113 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Somehow hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

309 bars, about 9:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 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 Somehow?

13 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 309 BARS ANALYSED
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