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slapCore · Bass & Bakery
EXERCISE 9 OF 42
Groove C -- Part C
44 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART Q
PART S15
OUTRO
17 groovesEYIQL+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play slapCore on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
89/100

ride through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-27, ride through bars 28-30 and snare through bars 31-38, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-23 and 49-52 -- 21.4% 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-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x---x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-x-x-----x-x-x---|
slapCore -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 55, 86, 87 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Break 4 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is slapCore?

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 slapCore hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 slapCore?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 55, 86, 87 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED