Sleeping Giant · Dream Theater

298 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 9:57 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
298
LENGTH
9:57
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-82, 84-89 and 253-258, and 1 more place -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SLEEPING GIANT · BAR 78
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

38 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 16, 36, 40, 44, 49, 50 and 70 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

34 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

298 bars across 31 sections: 164 keep time, 76 are fills, 9 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

COUNT-IN
PART Z
PART AE
PART AO
PART BR
PART Z
OUTRO 2
25 groovesGZWAEAO+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleeping Giant?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Sleeping Giant hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

298 bars, about 9:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 135 exercises over 43 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sleeping Giant?

38 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 16, 36, 40, 44, 49, 50 and 70 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 298 BARS ANALYSED
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