Slipping Through My Fingers - HSWV · ABBA

29 bars, 1:34, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
29
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 9-18, and 3 more places -- 64.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 69 BPM
SLIPPING THROUGH MY FINGERS - HSWV · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 30.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 2 sections: 26 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slipping Through My Fingers - HSWV?

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 - HSWV hard to play on drums?

34 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?

29 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 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 - HSWV?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 30.

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