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slip under the door · Glass Beach

EXERCISE 18 OF 50
Join Chorus to Part N (bars 51-53)
64 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART N
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play slip under the door on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-15, toms through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-31 and snare through bars 32-36, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----------------|
SD |------------------r-----------------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------x-----|
FT |---------------------------------------------x--|
BD |x--------x--------------------x-----------------|
HF |------------------------------------x-----------|
slip under the door -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-52 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-67 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 66-72 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-87 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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