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When The Bough Breaks · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 6 OF 65
Groove F
67 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2, PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART O
PART P
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDAGGPO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When The Bough Breaks on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-100, hi-hat through bars 101-117, snare through bars 118-124, hi-hat through bars 125-130 and snare through bars 131-132, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 15-16, and 14 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----g-----------x-----------g-g-|
BD |x-----------x-------x-----------|
When The Bough Breaks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 84, 92, 96, 100, 116, 117 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is When The Bough Breaks?

138 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 When The Bough Breaks hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 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 When The Bough Breaks?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 84, 92, 96, 100, 116, 117 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED