The Somberlain · Dissection

200 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 7:08 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
7:08
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THE SOMBERLAIN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 36 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 20 sections: 114 keep time, 42 are fills, 11 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 158-173.

CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 5
PART AW
PART BK
OUTRO
13 groovesCAABKBEAW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Somberlain?

110 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?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 7:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

27 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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