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No Sleep Till Brooklyn · Beastie Boys

EXERCISE 23 OF 26
Groove J -- Outro 2
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CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
CHORUS 3
VERSE 4
PART F
VERSE 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCIFB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Sleep Till Brooklyn on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 2-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61, kick and crashes through bars 62-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20, 28-34 and 36, and 2 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
No Sleep Till Brooklyn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-70 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-73 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse 5 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is No Sleep Till Brooklyn?

97 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 No Sleep Till Brooklyn hard to play on drums?

63 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in No Sleep Till Brooklyn?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED