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Sleep Now In The Fire · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 15 OF 18
Fill at bar 88 (a small one)
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleep Now In The Fire on drums

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

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----X-gx-x--X-g-|
BD |x-x----x-xx-----|
Sleep Now In The Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-85 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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