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Sonnet Of The Wretched · Chelsea Grin

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove AN -- Part AN (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 73 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AN
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART J
PART S
PART AC
PART AF
PART AK
PART AN
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBSAANAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sonnet Of The Wretched on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-32, toms through bars 33-34 and snare through bars 35-42, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 95-101 and 103-109 -- 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.

    95                                               96
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x-----x--x-----x--x-----x--x-----x--x-----x--|x-----x--x-----x--x-----------x-xx-xx--x--------|
Sonnet Of The Wretched -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- AN -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sonnet Of The Wretched?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sonnet Of The Wretched hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Sonnet Of The Wretched?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED