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When You Sleep · My Bloody Valentine

EXERCISE 9 OF 16
Fill at bar 68 and 102 (a small one)
121 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When You Sleep on drums

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

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
59/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
When You Sleep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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