Sleeping My Day Away · Mono INC

161 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 41-50 and 54-60, and 4 more places -- 50.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SLEEPING MY DAY AWAY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 36, 51, 52, 53, 61 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 51-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 12 sections: 105 keep time, 15 are fills and 30 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-131.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART A
OUTRO
4 groovesCAFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleeping My Day Away?

140 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 My Day Away hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sleeping My Day Away?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 36, 51, 52, 53, 61 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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