Like A Sunken Ship · Leprous

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7 and 9-16 -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 76 BPM
LIKE A SUNKEN SHIP · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 41, 42, 43, 44, 52, 56 and 9 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 41-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 58-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 12 sections: 49 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
PART S6
PART S
PART V
PART AD
PART V
10 groovesAVGSK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Like A Sunken Ship?

76 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 Like A Sunken Ship hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Like A Sunken Ship?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 41, 42, 43, 44, 52, 56 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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