SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD + Drums · Kami Kehoe

109 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 11, and 13 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD + DRUMS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22 and 15 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 14-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 14 sections: 44 keep time, 22 are fills, 30 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-108.

PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART H
PART L
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesCLHES1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD + Drums?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD + Drums hard to play on drums?

46 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 WHEN IM DEAD + Drums?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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