Slipping Away · Sum 41

31 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 1:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
31
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 15, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
SLIPPING AWAY · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 21, 25 and 29.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

31 bars across 3 sections: 20 keep time, 6 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-20.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slipping Away?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Slipping Away hard to play on drums?

48 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

31 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Slipping Away?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 21, 25 and 29.

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