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Sleeping Pills Suck · Psychonaut 4 (tab by Novjop)

Sleeping Pills Suck · Psychonaut 4 (tab by Novjop)
EXERCISE 25 OF 33
Groove J
172 / 364 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO 2
10 groovesACES9F+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleeping Pills Suck on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
364
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-53, silence through bars 54-60, ride through bars 61-108, hi-hat through bars 109-196 and ride through bars 197-213, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    110
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-|
Sleeping Pills Suck -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 105-168 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 197-253 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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