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Slave · Weezer

EXERCISE 16 OF 23
Fill at bar 60
71 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART G
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesIHGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slave on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-16, snare through bars 17-22, ride through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-26 and ride through bars 27-34, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x-----x-x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Slave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- I, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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