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Sleeping in My Car (drum tab) · Roxette

EXERCISE 19 OF 57
Fill at bar 57 (a small one)
96 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleeping in My Car (drum tab) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, toms through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Sleeping in My Car (drum tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-28 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-53 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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