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Sonata in C# · Stereosity

Sonata in C# · Stereosity
EXERCISE 7 OF 38
Groove A -- Part A
24 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sonata in C# on drums

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.

58 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
98
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-20, ride through bars 21-25 and silence through bars 26-28, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----------x-----|
Sonata in C# -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- O, R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part S5 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 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?

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