SLEEPS SOCIETY · While She Sleeps

116 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 9 more places -- 21.4% 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
SLEEPS SOCIETY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 17 and 28 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 16-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 13 sections: 52 keep time, 34 are fills, 6 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-89.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S7
PART T
PART V
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAAFUS7G+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SLEEPS SOCIETY?

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 SLEEPS SOCIETY 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 SLEEPS SOCIETY?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 17 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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