For Dinner... · Slint

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 8-12 and 23-24, and 7 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
FOR DINNER... · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 66 and 68.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 10 sections: 75 keep time, 3 are fills, 8 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-34.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLDABRAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For Dinner...?

78 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 For Dinner... hard to play on drums?

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in For Dinner...?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 66 and 68.

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