Sesbian Lex · Sinkin' Deeper

74 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 24-26, and 7 more places -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SESBIAN LEX · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 14, 15, 19 and 19 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 8 sections: 39 keep time, 26 are fills and 1 is a stop.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDITBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sesbian Lex?

135 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 Sesbian Lex hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sesbian Lex?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 14, 15, 19 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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