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How Do You Sleep? · John Lennon

EXERCISE 5 OF 18
Fill at bar 12, 52, 132 and 172 (a small one)
185 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Do You Sleep? on drums

216 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 6:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2 and hi-hat through bars 3-216.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 65-79 and 105-119, and 2 more places -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x---x---------|
How Do You Sleep? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 40, 52, 80, 92, 120 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 12-93 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 141-185 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is How Do You Sleep??

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 How Do You Sleep? hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in How Do You Sleep??

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 40, 52, 80, 92, 120 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED