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Sleeping Beauty · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove Q -- Part Q
0 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleeping Beauty on drums

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.

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
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-29, hi-hat through bars 30-56, ride through bars 57-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-128.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x-x-|
Sleeping Beauty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- Q, S -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-57 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-69 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-103 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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