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slammer time · finideaspsy

EXERCISE 10 OF 49
Fill at bar 4
37 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE INTRO
INTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesANDJR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play slammer time on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-33 and silence through bars 34-41, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 9-11, and 6 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
slammer time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-9 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 7-19 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-38 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is slammer time?

101 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 slammer time hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 slammer time?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED