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Ode to Sleep · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove P -- Part P
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COUNT-IN
PART G
PART P
PART M
CHORUS
PART G
PART L
PART M
PART P
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesSMPGS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ode to Sleep on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, silence through bars 26-32, toms through bars 33-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-77, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    82
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Ode to Sleep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- P, M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-43 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-52 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-89 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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