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Sleepwalkers · Draconian

EXERCISE 11 OF 26
Fill at bar 64
40 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleepwalkers on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, toms through bars 35-48, snare through bars 49-65, silence through bars 66-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-84, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
T1 |x---------------|
T2 |------------x---|
FT |--x---x---------|
BD |----x---x---x---|
Sleepwalkers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- F, N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-103 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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