Slip Out · Beck Mongolian Chop Squad

161 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-17, 63-77 and 79-93, and 6 more places -- 62.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SLIP OUT · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 42, 104, 106, 124, 130, 154 and 1 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 130 · LANDS ON BAR 131

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 12 sections: 63 keep time, 7 are fills, 61 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-50.

PART S2
BREAK 2
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBFS2S3H+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slip Out?

150 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 Out hard to play on drums?

46 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 42, 104, 106, 124, 130, 154 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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