Gethsemane · Sleep Token

103 bars, 5:46, at 71 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.

ProgressiveAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 79-80, 83 and 87-88, and 3 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 71 BPM
GETHSEMANE · BARS 79-80
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 5 more.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 11 are fills, 10 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-102.

PART I
PART S4
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAJS6IZS4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gethsemane?

71 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 Gethsemane hard to play on drums?

58 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 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 Gethsemane?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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