Slave · Bindweed

77 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:33 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
77
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-27 and 39-46 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SLAVE · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 28 and 4 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 9 sections: 45 keep time, 10 are fills, 10 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-69.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHQDKB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slave?

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 Slave hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Slave?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 28 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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