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Sleepless · Anathema

EXERCISE 11 OF 45
Groove G
83 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJRDAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleepless on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 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
146
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-72, kick and crashes through bars 73-88, ride through bars 89-105, silence through bars 106-109 and hi-hat through bars 110-141, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-35, 38-39 and 58-59, and 8 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34                       35
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------x-----------------|
RD |------x-----x-----------|------------x-----x-----|
SD |x--------x--------------|------x--------x--------|
T2 |------------------f-----|------------------------|
FT |------------------------|x--x--------------------|
BD |------x--------xxx------|x--x--------x--------xxx|
Sleepless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 33, 36, 37, 40, 57 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- J, R -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 32-57 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-90 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sleepless?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sleepless hard to play on drums?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sleepless?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 33, 36, 37, 40, 57 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED