Sleep Talking · Indigo De Souza

57 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 7-9 and 13-14, and 5 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SLEEP TALKING · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 3 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 40-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 5 sections: 39 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

CHORUS
PART A
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBALWHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleep Talking?

85 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 Talking hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sleep Talking?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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