ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play femboy slam on drums

149 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 170 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 149
LENGTH: 3:30
DIFFICULTY: 86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-46, ride through bars 47-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-80, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 51-57 and 59, and 2 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17                               18
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-------------------|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-----------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

femboy slam -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 12, 13, 14 and 65 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- U, AD -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 5-20 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 27-39 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
and 11 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is femboy slam?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is femboy slam hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 femboy slam?

22 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 12, 13, 14 and 65 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED