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Sleep Alone · Two Door Cinema Club

EXERCISE 9 OF 40
Run D1 · Part D (bars 25-30)
99 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 4
9 groovesBDCHA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleep Alone on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-90, snare through bars 91-94, hi-hat through bars 95-98, silence through bars 99-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-132.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-18, 43-54 and 60-65, and 6 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sleep Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 66, 86 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-27 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 35-67 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sleep Alone?

148 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 Sleep Alone 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Sleep Alone?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 66, 86 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED