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Sleep Talk · Dayseeker

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove J -- Part J
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PART B
CHORUS
PART J
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFJBS10M+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleep Talk on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, snare through bars 55-79, hi-hat through bars 80-87 and silence through bars 88-94, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 63-65, and 5 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Sleep Talk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 24, 27, 28, 32, 46 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-29 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-41 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-79 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-99 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sleep Talk?

130 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 Talk hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Talk?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 24, 27, 28, 32, 46 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED