Trouble Sleeping · Blade and Bath

125 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 4:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-47 and 73-83 -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
TROUBLE SLEEPING · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 11, 52, 53 and 2 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-47.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIS9ES2S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trouble Sleeping?

180 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Trouble Sleeping hard to play on drums?

30 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Trouble Sleeping?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 11, 52, 53 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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