Dark Signs · Sleep Token

158 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-48 -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
DARK SIGNS · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 4 sections: 139 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-115.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCALS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Signs?

142 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 Dark Signs hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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