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Sonata in C# · Stereocity

Sonata in C# · Stereocity
EXERCISE 22 OF 66
Groove Q -- Part Q
56 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sonata in C# on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-23, silence through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-39, snare through bars 40-48, silence through bars 49-51 and snare through bars 52-67, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----------x---x-|
Sonata in C# -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- M, AF -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-24 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q and Part W -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-48 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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