The Iconic Drumming Behind “The Summoning” | Sleep Token · Sleep Token

331 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 7:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
331
LENGTH
7:49
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 101, 103 and 105, and 11 more places -- 5.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
THE ICONIC DRUMMING BEHIND “THE SUMMONING” | SLEEP TOKEN · BAR 105
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 11, 67, 72, 78, 86, 94 and 51 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

331 bars across 38 sections: 124 keep time, 57 are fills, 54 are stops and 77 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-139.

BREAK
PART Q
PART AE
PART S24
CHORUS
34 groovesS27QAPS5S24+29Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Iconic Drumming Behind “The Summoning” | Sleep Token?

173 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 The Iconic Drumming Behind “The Summoning” | Sleep Token hard to play on drums?

54 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

331 bars, about 7:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 107 exercises over 30 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Iconic Drumming Behind “The Summoning” | Sleep Token?

24 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 11, 67, 72, 78, 86, 94 and 51 more.

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