Slaughter Beach · Clutch

128 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 13 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
SLAUGHTER BEACH · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 23, 24, 43 and 6 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 95-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 8 sections: 73 keep time, 12 are fills and 36 are stops.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHCALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slaughter Beach?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Slaughter Beach hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Slaughter Beach?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 23, 24, 43 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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