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Sleep Drifter · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 14 OF 63
Run B1 · Part B (bars 12-18)
126 / 218 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART A
PART B
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleep Drifter on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-51, snare through bars 52-53, hi-hat through bars 54-66, snare through bars 67-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-104, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-36 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 32-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-63 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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