Slice Paper Wrists · Poison The Well

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 95-101 and 103-108 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 109 BPM
SLICE PAPER WRISTS · BARS 95-96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 33, 39, 44 and 8 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 15 sections: 79 keep time, 14 are fills, 9 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-108.

PART D
PART H
PART M
PART K
PART M
PART Z
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAIHMKAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slice Paper Wrists?

109 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Slice Paper Wrists hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Slice Paper Wrists?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 33, 39, 44 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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