Granite · Sleep Token

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulProgressive120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 46-48, and 5 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GRANITE · BARS 38-39
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 4 sections: 76 keep time and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-76.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesAS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Granite?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Granite hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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