Slave · Weezer

79 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-22, 35-40 and 61-66, and 1 more place -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
SLAVE · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 25 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 23-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 41-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 6 sections: 41 keep time, 31 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-22.

PART G
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesIHGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slave?

124 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?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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