Sonata in C# · Stereosity

98 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 34-35 and 38-39, and 1 more place -- 12.1% 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 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 7 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 12 sections: 42 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

PART S5
PART O
PART R
PART T
OUTRO 2
12 groovesS12OS5TR+7Fill 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?

58 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Sonata in C#?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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