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Sovereign · Ingested

EXERCISE 12 OF 76
Groove J -- Part J
45 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AC
PART AK
PART AL
PART A
OUTRO
16 groovesCKAACAL+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sovereign on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57, snare through bars 58-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 26-28 and 42-44, and 2 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Sovereign -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 25, 29, 33, 53, 57 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-15 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 17-119 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sovereign?

145 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 Sovereign hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Sovereign?

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 25, 29, 33, 53, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED