Sleeping Pills Suck · Psychonaut 4 (tab by Novjop)

364 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 7:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
364
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-38, 41-44 and 47-50, and 2 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SLEEPING PILLS SUCK · BAR 110
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 46, 52, 212, 252, 272 and 15 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 212 · LANDS ON BAR 213
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 252 · LANDS ON BAR 253
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 272 · LANDS ON BAR 273 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

364 bars across 13 sections: 233 keep time, 21 are fills, 48 are stops and 57 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-108.

CHORUS
PART E
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO 2
10 groovesACES9F+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleeping Pills Suck?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sleeping Pills Suck hard to play on drums?

52 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?

364 bars, about 7:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 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 Pills Suck?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 46, 52, 212, 252, 272 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 364 BARS ANALYSED
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