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SLAM · Fading Echo

SLAM · Fading Echo
EXERCISE 18 OF 35
Run C1 · Part C (bars 22-25)
46 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART S3
PART H
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFQJHT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SLAM on drums

75 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
45/100

ride through bars 1-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49, snare through bars 50-57, silence through bars 58-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 48 and 68-74 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SLAM -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 18, 30, 61 and 65.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-33 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-22 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-43 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-63 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is SLAM?

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

Is SLAM hard to play on drums?

45 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 SLAM?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 18, 30, 61 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED