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Sleep! (Racer-X) · Big Black

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove C -- Outro 2
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0 / 9 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleep! (Racer-X) on drums

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

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-63.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |x-x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Sleep! (Racer-X) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED