Ascensionism · Sleep Token

96 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 13 and 37, and 7 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 117 BPM
ASCENSIONISM · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 7, 10, 12, 16, 19 and 5 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 30 keep time, 11 are fills, 10 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-40.

CHORUS
PART M
PART R
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS6BRAM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ascensionism?

117 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 Ascensionism hard to play on drums?

47 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Ascensionism?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 7, 10, 12, 16, 19 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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