Sonata in C# · Stereocity

124 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 52-54 and 56-58, and 2 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
SONATA IN C# · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 18 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 14 sections: 59 keep time, 24 are fills, 26 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-34.

PART B
PART L
PART Q
PART W
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AK
PART AL
OUTRO
14 groovesMBAFS14Q+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sonata in C#?

158 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Sonata in C# hard to play on drums?

51 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sonata in C#?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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