Slamgrind V · Argyle Meth

54 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32 and 45-52 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SLAMGRIND V · BAR 25
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 4, 23, 24 and 53.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 8 sections: 40 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-33.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesJCFLS3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slamgrind V?

120 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 Slamgrind V hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Slamgrind V?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 4, 23, 24 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 54 BARS ANALYSED
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