The Somberlain (Live Legacy) · Dissection

201 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 7:44 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
7:44
DIFFICULTY
78/100
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 · 102 BPM
THE SOMBERLAIN (LIVE LEGACY) · 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 · 102 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 102 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

201 bars across 21 sections: 113 keep time, 42 are fills, 11 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 159-174.

CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 5
PART AU
PART BI
OUTRO
14 groovesCAABIBCAU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Somberlain (Live Legacy)?

102 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 (Live Legacy) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 7:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 (Live Legacy)?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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