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Slip Out · Beck

EXERCISE 8 OF 40
Groove H -- Part H
42 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slip Out on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-12, silence through bars 13-21, ride through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-47 and ride through bars 48-55, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Slip Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- J, B -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-56 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-77 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED