Slip Out · Beck

81 bars, 4:19, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-38, 43 and 56-62, and 3 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
SLIP OUT · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 21, 39, 47 and 5 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 9 sections: 49 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-38.

PART B
PART S2
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
PART N
CHORUS 2
5 groovesJBS2HNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slip Out?

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

Is Slip Out hard to play on drums?

52 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Slip Out?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 21, 39, 47 and 5 more.

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