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EXERCISE 12 OF 37
Groove I -- Part I
122 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART I
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNUDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slaves To Metal on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-38, snare through bars 39-54, hi-hat through bars 55-75 and snare through bars 76-91, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 92-133 -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    93
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Slaves To Metal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 23, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- U, N -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 34-92 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 88-140 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Slaves To Metal?

138 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 Slaves To Metal hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 To Metal?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 23, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED