Flesh · Sleepwalk

160 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-78, 87-104 and 107-108, and 2 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
FLESH · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 15 and 16.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 5 sections: 152 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-78.

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

Questions

What BPM is Flesh?

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

Is Flesh hard to play on drums?

48 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Flesh?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 15 and 16.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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