Jaws · Sleep Token

204 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 18 and 21, and 7 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
JAWS · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 83 and 59 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 65-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 85-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 26 sections: 96 keep time, 65 are fills, 8 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-59.

CHORUS 2
PART H
PART A
PART H
PART S23
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
18 groovesDHAS23S+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jaws?

138 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 Jaws hard to play on drums?

47 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Jaws?

19 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 83 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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