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Banjo Slam · No One Gets Out Alive

Banjo Slam · No One Gets Out Alive
EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART Q
PART O
CHORUS 2
7 groovesEQS1OS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Banjo Slam on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-11, hi-hat through bars 12-15, snare through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-23 and kick and crashes through bars 24-27, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Banjo Slam -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-91 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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