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SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD + Drums · Kami Kehoe

EXERCISE 33 OF 43
Join Part H to Break (bars 71-73)
91 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, BREAK
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART H
PART L
PART H
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesCLHES1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD + Drums on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 3-14, toms through bars 15-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-44, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD + Drums -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-38 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-51 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part H -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-98 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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