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Sonnet · Prayer For Cleansing

Sonnet · Prayer For Cleansing
EXERCISE 13 OF 68
Join Part B to Part G (bars 15-17)
79 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART G
PART B
PART G
PART T
PART V
PART T
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
18 groovesLBGTP+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sonnet on drums

180 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
81/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-36, hi-hat through bars 37-53, ride through bars 54-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-78, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 11-13, and 5 more places -- 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.

    4
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Sonnet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 36, 53 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- B, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-37 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sonnet?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sonnet hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 36, 53 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED