Horses · Slomosa

172 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 58 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HORSES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 36, 57, 61 and 12 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 11 sections: 64 keep time, 18 are fills, 61 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-94.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S8
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS8AHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Horses?

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 Horses hard to play on drums?

39 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Horses?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 36, 57, 61 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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