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Sleepwalker · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 11 OF 78
Groove F
60 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART D
PART S10
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBDAELAC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleepwalker on drums

165 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 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
165
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-24, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33-35 and 37-40, and 2 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xxx-x---xx|
Sleepwalker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 36, 41, 42 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-82 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sleepwalker?

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 Sleepwalker hard to play on drums?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 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 Sleepwalker?

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 36, 41, 42 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED