Sleep · Strangled

120 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17-23 -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SLEEP · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 37-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 15 sections: 39 keep time, 13 are fills, 44 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-45.

PART C
PART J
PART O
PART U
PART AB
PART Y
PART L
OUTRO 2
13 groovesACUYL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleep?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

62 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 7 more.

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