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Slither · Velvet Revolver

Slither · Velvet Revolver
EXERCISE 8 OF 45
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
105 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFKHBRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slither on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-15, hi-hat through bars 16-41, ride through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-73 and ride through bars 74-89, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 50-56 and 98-104, and 3 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 41, 49, 57, 73, 81, 89 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- F, K -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 25-53 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-74 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-91 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-98 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slither?

141 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 Slither hard to play on drums?

59 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Slither?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 41, 49, 57, 73, 81, 89 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED