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Sleep · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleep on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-62, hi-hat through bars 63-80 and snare through bars 81-105, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--------x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x---|--x-x-x---x-----|
Sleep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-82 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-106 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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