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Slamaholics · PeelingFlesh

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove G -- Part G
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CHORUS
PART G
PART I
PART Q
PART S7
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFIBQG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slamaholics on drums

68 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-45, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 53 and 57, and 2 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Slamaholics -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 24, 28, 29 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- G, F -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-33 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-40 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-57 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Slamaholics?

160 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 Slamaholics hard to play on drums?

55 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Slamaholics?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 24, 28, 29 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED