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The Offering · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 34 OF 79
Run S71 · Part S7 (bars 77-96)
91 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S7
COUNT-IN
PART F
PART S4
CHORUS
PART S7
PART Y
PART AB
PART C
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
12 groovesDS4CFS7+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Offering on drums

196 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-33, silence through bars 34-60, snare through bars 61-77, silence through bars 78-94 and toms through bars 95-96, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 25, and 20 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----x-----------|
The Offering -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 21, 29, 31, 32, 65 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, AB -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part S4 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-66 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-97 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-105 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Offering?

135 BPM, in 4/4, 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 The Offering hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 The Offering?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 21, 29, 31, 32, 65 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED