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Sleep · Royal Blood

EXERCISE 13 OF 29
Run F1 · Chorus (bars 43-56)
103 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleep on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-116, snare through bars 117-124, hi-hat through bars 125-137, toms through bars 138-139 and kick and crashes through bars 140-141, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    44               45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------o-------|o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|--x-x-----x-----|
Sleep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-63 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-117 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 114-140 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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