The Somberlain · Dissection

200 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 7:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
7:28
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 6 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
THE SOMBERLAIN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 32 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 24 sections: 115 keep time, 38 are fills, 6 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 159-173.

PART Z
CHORUS 6
PART AS
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
15 groovesCZASLAZ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Somberlain?

105 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 The Somberlain hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 7:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 27 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 The Somberlain?

29 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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