Sleep · My Chemical Romance

169 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 53-60 and 93-100, and 6 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 154 BPM
SLEEP · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 46, 48, 50, 52, 86 and 6 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 12 sections: 99 keep time, 12 are fills, 28 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-38.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBIS1JF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleep?

154 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 hard to play on drums?

53 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 46, 48, 50, 52, 86 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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