Sleeping in My Car (drum tab) · Roxette

127 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 28-34 and 36-39, and 6 more places -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SLEEPING IN MY CAR (DRUM TAB) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 26, 27, 35, 47, 48 and 14 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time, 21 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-25.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART U
PART W
7 groovesBDWLU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleeping in My Car (drum tab)?

135 BPM, in 4/4, 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 in My Car (drum tab) hard to play on drums?

60 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 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 in My Car (drum tab)?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 26, 27, 35, 47, 48 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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