Damocles · Sleep Token

116 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressivePop150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35, 37-43 and 45-49 -- 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 · 156 BPM
DAMOCLES · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 36, 44, 60, 64, 68, 81 and 8 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 11 sections: 52 keep time, 14 are fills, 18 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-33.

PART A
PART S3
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART S8
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesLHCS10A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Damocles?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Damocles hard to play on drums?

57 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:58 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, 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 Damocles?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 36, 44, 60, 64, 68, 81 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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