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Slip of the Tongue2 · Whitesnake

EXERCISE 7 OF 68
Groove Q -- Chorus
53 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AF
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesQEHUAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slip of the Tongue2 on drums

175 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, silence through bars 7-19, ride through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35 and ride through bars 36-39, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 40-42 and 44-47, and 3 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x--x--|
Slip of the Tongue2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 19, 27, 39, 51, 65, 73 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-39 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slip of the Tongue2?

136 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 Slip of the Tongue2 hard to play on drums?

56 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Slip of the Tongue2?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 19, 27, 39, 51, 65, 73 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED