Banjo Slam · No One Gets Out Alive

93 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 20-22 and 28-42, and 5 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BANJO SLAM · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, 43 and 9 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 8 sections: 51 keep time, 15 are fills, 14 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-42.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART Q
PART O
CHORUS 2
7 groovesEQS1OS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Banjo Slam?

150 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 Banjo Slam hard to play on drums?

64 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Banjo Slam?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, 43 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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