Sleepwalking with a knife · Deadwater Drowning

280 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 27-29 and 31-32, and 4 more places -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
SLEEPWALKING WITH A KNIFE · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 30, 33, 34, 35, 47 and 17 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

280 bars across 23 sections: 178 keep time, 23 are fills, 35 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-138.

CHORUS
PART X
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART BP
OUTRO
17 groovesPFXBRD+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleepwalking with a knife?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sleepwalking with a knife hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

280 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 30 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 with a knife?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 30, 33, 34, 35, 47 and 17 more.

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