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Slipping Through My Fingers · ABBA

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 8 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slipping Through My Fingers on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-67.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Slipping Through My Fingers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED