The Somberlain by Dissection (D standard) · Mitohondriq (Dissection)

364 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 7:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
364
LENGTH
7:26
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25 and 27, and 12 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.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE SOMBERLAIN BY DISSECTION (D STANDARD) · BAR 17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

42 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 74 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

38 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

364 bars across 31 sections: 209 keep time, 80 are fills, 35 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART X
CHORUS 6
PART A
19 groovesEXAYCK+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Somberlain by Dissection (D standard)?

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 The Somberlain by Dissection (D standard) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

364 bars, about 7:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 127 exercises over 40 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Somberlain by Dissection (D standard)?

42 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 364 BARS ANALYSED
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