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Look To Windward · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 14 OF 48
Groove L -- Part L
46 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART L, OUTRO 2
PART F
PART C
PART L
CHORUS
PART Y
PART S12
PART C
OUTRO 2
12 groovesS9CS12FY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Look To Windward on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-51, snare through bars 52-54, toms through bars 55-57 and silence through bars 58-132, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17                                   18
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----------------|
Look To Windward -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 36-54 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-131 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 130-149 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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