Sleepwalkers · Draconian

115 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 40 and 42, and 7 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SLEEPWALKERS · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 38, 48, 52, 56, 60, 62 and 8 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 7 sections: 24 keep time, 14 are fills, 48 are stops and 26 are silent.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBS1IS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleepwalkers?

110 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 Sleepwalkers hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Sleepwalkers?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 38, 48, 52, 56, 60, 62 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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