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Slamming 2 · Deadly Giant

Slamming 2 · Deadly Giant
EXERCISE 14 OF 37
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 17-19)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCDAOJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slamming 2 on drums

83 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, snare through bars 19-22 and ride through bars 23-30, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 15, and 9 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
Slamming 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-19 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-23 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-55 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slamming 2?

190 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 Slamming 2 hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Slamming 2?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED