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Slaves And Bulldozers · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 14 OF 69
Join Chorus to Part K (bars 15-17)
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slaves And Bulldozers on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
73/100

ride through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-36, ride through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-66, ride through bars 67-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-107, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    73
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------------------x-------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x-------x---|
HH |------------------o-------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x-x---x---------|
HF |------------x-------x-------x---|
Slaves And Bulldozers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- AH, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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