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Somehow · Woods Of Desolation

Somehow · Woods Of Desolation
EXERCISE 4 OF 52
Groove S -- Outro
57 / 309 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 51 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somehow on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
309
LENGTH
9:05
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-64, snare through bars 65-97, silence through bars 98-114, toms through bars 115-116 and snare through bars 117-130, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    229
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Somehow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- W -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, O -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-65 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part S4 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-133 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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