Slippin' Away · Hypocrisy

85 bars, 5:40, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 12 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
SLIPPIN' AWAY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 23, 45, 61, 65, 69 and 1 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 7 sections: 72 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-22.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBJEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slippin' Away?

60 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 Slippin' Away hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Slippin' Away?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 23, 45, 61, 65, 69 and 1 more.

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