Sleep · Royal Blood

154 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-55, 85-99 and 101-115, and 1 more place -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 153 BPM
SLEEP · BARS 44-45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 77, 84, 100, 116, 124 and 2 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 11 sections: 109 keep time, 8 are fills, 13 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-154.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFADS1K+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleep?

153 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?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 77, 84, 100, 116, 124 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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