slip under the door · Glass Beach

150 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-51, 60-62 and 72-75, and 1 more place -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SLIP UNDER THE DOOR · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 27, 32 and 8 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 16-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 127-129 · LANDS ON BAR 130 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 22 sections: 61 keep time, 14 are fills, 10 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-51.

PART S2
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
PART S15
OUTRO
BREAK
16 groovesLBNGS22+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is slip under the door?

110 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 slip under the door hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 slip under the door?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 27, 32 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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