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Slave · Silverchair

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART O
PART X
OUTRO
9 groovesFOZIT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slave on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-17, ride through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-66, toms through bars 67-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 26-28, and 2 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 17 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-10 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-22 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-29 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-43 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-51 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slave?

111 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 Slave hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Slave?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 17 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED