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Somniloquy · Akhlys

EXERCISE 18 OF 92
Groove L -- Part L
134 / 310 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART K
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK 4
16 groovesIS23UFB+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somniloquy on drums

310 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 8:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
8:30
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-26, toms through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52, snare through bars 53-54 and silence through bars 55-57, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-64, 66-68 and 90-92, and 17 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Somniloquy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 36, 65, 88, 89, 93, 97 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-72 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Somniloquy?

180 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Somniloquy hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

310 bars, about 8:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 Somniloquy?

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 36, 65, 88, 89, 93, 97 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 310 BARS ANALYSED