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Slippin' Away · Hypocrisy

EXERCISE 15 OF 29
Groove F
72 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBJEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slippin' Away on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, ride through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-45, ride through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61 and ride through bars 62-69, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Slippin' Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B, J -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-31 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 50-66 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED