Sleep Now In The Fire · Rage Against The Machine

105 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 41-56 and 65-84 -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 88 and 104.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 88 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-84.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDBS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleep Now In The Fire?

128 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 Now In The Fire hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sleep Now In The Fire?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 88 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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