Sleep! (Racer-X) · Big Black

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:31 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-46 and 48-63 -- 76.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SLEEP! (RACER-X) · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 2 sections: 62 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-63.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleep! (Racer-X)?

100 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! (Racer-X) hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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