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At Dawn They Sleep · Slayer

EXERCISE 12 OF 66
Fill at bar 11
117 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART G
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS
OUTRO
14 groovesXNQGF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play At Dawn They Sleep on drums

212 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 8:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
8:42
DIFFICULTY
77/100

ride through bars 3-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, ride through bars 20-31, hi-hat through bars 32-39, ride through bars 40-129 and hi-hat through bars 130-133, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 142-144, 146-148 and 150-152, and 2 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    142
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
At Dawn They Sleep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 23, 31, 43, 55, 59 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 10-20 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 16-24 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is At Dawn They Sleep?

98 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 At Dawn They Sleep hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 8:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 At Dawn They Sleep?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 23, 31, 43, 55, 59 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED