Telomeres · Sleep Token

62 bars, 3:30, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 30 and 32 -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 71 BPM
TELOMERES · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 25 more.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 6-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 4 sections: 22 keep time, 31 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAALBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Telomeres?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Telomeres hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Telomeres?

6 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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