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Caramel · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove AH -- Outro
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CHORUS
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBAHASYS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Caramel on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-59, hi-hat through bars 60-72 and snare through bars 73-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54, 56 and 58, and 1 more place -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |X-x-x-x-X-x-x-x-X-x-x-x-X-x-x-x-|
Caramel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 20, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- AH -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part Y -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 5-53 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Caramel?

94 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 Caramel hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 12 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Caramel?

5 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 20, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED