Ode to Sleep · Twenty One Pilots

206 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-60, 77 and 82-88, and 6 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ODE TO SLEEP · BAR 82
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 40, 61, 69, 81, 89, 100 and 7 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 18 sections: 100 keep time, 13 are fills, 50 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 197-206.

COUNT-IN
PART G
PART P
PART M
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesSMPGS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ode to Sleep?

150 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 Ode to Sleep hard to play on drums?

60 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ode to Sleep?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 40, 61, 69, 81, 89, 100 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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