Slaves And Bulldozers · Soundgarden

111 bars, 6:50, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-82 -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 65 BPM
SLAVES AND BULLDOZERS · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11 and 26 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 32 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-83.

CHORUS
PART K
PART S
PART W
PART K
PART S
PART W
PART AH
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDWKSAH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slaves And Bulldozers?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Slaves And Bulldozers hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Slaves And Bulldozers?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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