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Trouble Sleeping · Blade and Bath

EXERCISE 11 OF 20
Join Part E to Chorus (bars 14-16)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIS9ES2S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trouble Sleeping on drums

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.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
30/100

snare through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-48, silence through bars 49-50, snare through bars 51-53 and ride through bars 54-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x---|
Trouble Sleeping -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- I, E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-71 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

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