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SLEEPS SOCIETY · While She Sleeps

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove A -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SLEEPS SOCIETY on drums

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.

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
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-38 and toms through bars 39-41, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x-x-|
SLEEPS SOCIETY -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, AF -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-107 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-40 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-74 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-81 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part X -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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