slam song 1 · CHUM

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 40-42 and 44-46 -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
SLAM SONG 1 · BARS 5-6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 12, 35, 36 and 55.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 9 sections: 38 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-49.

PART E
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
PART L
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGJLER+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is slam song 1?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 slam song 1 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 slam song 1?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 12, 35, 36 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 56 BARS ANALYSED
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