Look To Windward · Sleep Token

196 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 33-34 and 37, and 6 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 149 BPM
LOOK TO WINDWARD · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 31, 32, 40, 48 and 9 more.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 149 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 15 sections: 47 keep time, 15 are fills, 17 are stops and 103 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

PART F
PART C
CHORUS
PART Y
PART S12
PART C
12 groovesS9CS12FY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Look To Windward?

149 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 Look To Windward hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Look To Windward?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 31, 32, 40, 48 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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