Snow-Sleep · Kardashev

108 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 5:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-19 -- 15.3% 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
SNOW-SLEEP · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 18 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 21-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 73-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 6 sections: 33 keep time, 24 are fills and 49 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-20.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesS6BSAES1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Snow-Sleep?

110 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Snow-Sleep hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Snow-Sleep?

4 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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