Emergence · Sleep Token

63 bars, 4:00, at 63 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.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5 and 7-12 -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 63 BPM
EMERGENCE · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 22, 26, 28, 38, 40 and 8 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 8 sections: 29 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEAEBSS7+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Emergence?

63 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 Emergence hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Emergence?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 22, 26, 28, 38, 40 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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