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Sleepwalk My Life Away · Metallica

EXERCISE 4 OF 39
Groove B -- Outro 2
125 / 213 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCAHBNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleepwalk My Life Away on drums

213 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
6:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bars 1-29, snare through bars 30-37, toms through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-55, snare through bars 56-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-71, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-37, 40-42 and 44-46, and 22 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |X-------X-------|
Sleepwalk My Life Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 38, 39, 63, 72, 82, 83 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 43-73 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 59-138 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 137-146 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sleepwalk My Life Away?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sleepwalk My Life Away hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 6:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sleepwalk My Life Away?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 38, 39, 63, 72, 82, 83 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED