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Sommer · Nargaroth

EXERCISE 1 OF 102
Groove AM -- Outro
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PART C
PART I
PART AD
OUTRO
19 groovesAMIUSY+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 6
JOIN · 19
LINK · 12
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sommer on drums

420 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 14:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
420
LENGTH
14:37
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-38, silence through bars 39-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-50 and ride through bars 51-115, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 356-362, 364-370 and 372-377, and 5 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    356
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Sommer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 33, 37, 44 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- AM -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-51 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part S4 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-67 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sommer?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sommer hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

420 bars, about 14:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 25 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 Sommer?

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 33, 37, 44 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 420 BARS ANALYSED