Svefn-g-englar · Sigur Rós

238 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 8:08 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
8:08
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-24 and 37-44, and 28 more places -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
SVEFN-G-ENGLAR · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 156.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 156 · LANDS ON BAR 157
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 24 sections: 177 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 162-194.

PART C
PART C
PART E
BREAK
CHORUS 7
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBCES18A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Svefn-g-englar?

117 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 Svefn-g-englar hard to play on drums?

33 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 8:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Svefn-g-englar?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 156.

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