Slipping Through My Fingers · ABBA

67 bars, 3:30, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 17-18 and 20, and 11 more places -- 67.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 69 BPM
SLIPPING THROUGH MY FINGERS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 66.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 2 sections: 55 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-54.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slipping Through My Fingers?

69 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 Slipping Through My Fingers hard to play on drums?

36 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Through My Fingers?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 66.

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