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Slither · Metallica

EXERCISE 15 OF 43
Join Part P to Part T (bars 34-36)
102 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, PART T
PART I
CHORUS
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART T
PART AL
OUTRO
8 groovesMTPALI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slither on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, toms through bars 31-35, hi-hat through bars 36-41, toms through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-59, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 24-25 and 28-29, and 11 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Slither -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- M, AL -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part P and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 42-60 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-81 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slither?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Slither hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Slither?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED