The Sleep · Pantera

177 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-38, 40-41 and 56-58, and 5 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
THE SLEEP · BARS 36-37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 18, 19, 35, 37, 39 and 28 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 26 sections: 87 keep time, 34 are fills, 27 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-34.

PART G
PART V
PART AA
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
19 groovesCKGVAA+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sleep?

155 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 Sleep hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Sleep?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 18, 19, 35, 37, 39 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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