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Sovereign (Taylor Brown Cover) · Bleed From Within

EXERCISE 12 OF 75
Fill at bar 11, 19 and 46 (a small one)
67 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART V
PART I
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART AR
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPACIVAR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sovereign (Taylor Brown Cover) on drums

161 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-36 and snare through bars 37-55, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-63, 106-108 and 110-111, and 1 more place -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Sovereign (Taylor Brown Cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- AC, P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-98 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sovereign (Taylor Brown Cover)?

182 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 Sovereign (Taylor Brown Cover) hard to play on drums?

54 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sovereign (Taylor Brown Cover)?

18 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED