Sleeping Beauty · A Perfect Circle

128 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:03 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-55 -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SLEEPING BEAUTY · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 87-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 11 sections: 64 keep time, 18 are fills, 28 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-55.

PART I
PART S2
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNQACIP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleeping Beauty?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Sleeping Beauty 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sleeping Beauty?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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