Slave to Nothing · Fit for a King

106 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 22-23 and 56, and 3 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SLAVE TO NOTHING · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26 and 34 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 14 sections: 36 keep time, 40 are fills, 2 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-42.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART N
PART AO
OUTRO
10 groovesDNS1VAO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slave to Nothing?

110 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 to Nothing hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Slave to Nothing?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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