Sleep Drifter · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

218 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 155 BPM, 4:43 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-28, 45-51 and 175-176, and 8 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
SLEEP DRIFTER · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 38, 43, 62, 78, 89 and 20 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 14 sections: 157 keep time, 26 are fills, 9 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-163.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART I
PART J
PART I
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHIJSK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleep Drifter?

155 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sleep Drifter hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sleep Drifter?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 38, 43, 62, 78, 89 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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