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Sleeping My Day Away · Mono INC

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART A
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART A
OUTRO
4 groovesCAFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleeping My Day Away on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-159 and kick and crashes through bars 160-161.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sleeping My Day Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-97 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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