The Sleep · Betraying Lizard

58 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-58 -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
THE SLEEP · BAR 51
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 50.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 4 sections: 18 keep time, 2 are fills, 33 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-58.

CHORUS
PART E
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesDGES3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sleep?

145 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 Sleep hard to play on drums?

36 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Sleep?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 50.

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