Dragonaut · Sleep

97 bars, 6:15, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
6:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-58, 61-62 and 65-67, and 1 more place -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 62 BPM
DRAGONAUT · BARS 57-58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 10, 16, 18, 23, 24 and 16 more.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 51 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-87.

PART C
PART G
PART L
PART Q
PART L
PART S8
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesYQOGL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dragonaut?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Dragonaut hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 6:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Dragonaut?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 10, 16, 18, 23, 24 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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