Sleep · Godspeed You! Black Emperor

22 bars, 1:24, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
22
LENGTH
1:24
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-12 and 15-17, and 1 more place -- 62.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 63 BPM
SLEEP · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 18.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

22 bars across 2 sections: 14 keep time, 2 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleep?

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

Is Sleep hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

22 bars, about 1:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sleep?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 18.

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