When You Sleep · My Bloody Valentine

127 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 21 more places -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
WHEN YOU SLEEP · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 38 and 14 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars: 106 keep time, 20 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-63.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When You Sleep?

129 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 When You Sleep hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 When You Sleep?

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 38 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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