The Night Does Not Belong To God · Sleep Token

94 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 15-16, and 3 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 153 BPM
THE NIGHT DOES NOT BELONG TO GOD · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 65, 69, 77 and 5 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 7 sections: 32 keep time, 11 are fills, 12 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-12.

PART G
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS5LDTG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Night Does Not Belong To God?

153 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 The Night Does Not Belong To God hard to play on drums?

44 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Night Does Not Belong To God?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 65, 69, 77 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Sleep Token drum parts

EVERY SLEEP TOKEN CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →