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Somnambulistic Pedophile · Sleep Terror
EXERCISE 3 OF 60
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
16 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
PART S
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AY
OUTRO
9 groovesAKSGAZC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somnambulistic Pedophile on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-35, snare through bars 36-50, hi-hat through bars 51-64 and snare through bars 65-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-57 and 63 -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x----x-----x---------x-----x---------x-----x---------x-----x----|
Somnambulistic Pedophile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- AK, AY -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Somnambulistic Pedophile?

135 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 Somnambulistic Pedophile hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Somnambulistic Pedophile?

12 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED