Provider · Sleep Token

85 bars, 4:36, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

ProgressiveAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 69-71, and 1 more place -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
PROVIDER · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 37, 41, 53, 54, 56, 57 and 3 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 8 sections: 20 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 49 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-75.

CHORUS
PART B
PART S4
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS2BS4HS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Provider?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Provider hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 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 Provider?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 37, 41, 53, 54, 56, 57 and 3 more.

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