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Sleep · Strangled

Sleep · Strangled
EXERCISE 22 OF 53
Join Part J to Part O (bars 39-41)
56 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART O
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleep on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-25, silence through bars 26-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-31, snare through bars 32-48 and ride through bars 49-55, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |o-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------------------x---|x-------x-----------x-------x---|
HF |--------x-------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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y, AB -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-74 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED