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Sleepwalking · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS9JQC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleepwalking on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and snare through bars 65-89, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 24 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x-xx-xx---x-x---|
Sleepwalking -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-81 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-57 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-85 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sleepwalking?

149 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 Sleepwalking hard to play on drums?

52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Sleepwalking?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED