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Gethsemane · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove AJ -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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PART I
PART S4
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAJS6IZS4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gethsemane on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-29, silence through bars 30-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-55, silence through bars 56-70 and snare through bars 71-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    79                                               80
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------------x-----x-----|------x-----------------------x-----------------|
Gethsemane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ, X (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-29 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-75 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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