Gods · Sleep Token

141 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 11, and 17 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
GODS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 13, 33, 37, 41, 43 and 23 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 30 are fills, 36 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-30.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART W
PART AI
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBITAIW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gods?

178 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 Gods hard to play on drums?

52 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 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 Gods?

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 13, 33, 37, 41, 43 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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