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Slk · Stam1na

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesHCDS15A+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slk on drums

174 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-11, snare through bars 12-19, ride through bars 20-31, snare through bars 32-39 and ride through bars 40-43, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-49, 52 and 54-57, and 11 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------x-----------x-------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-------|
BD |----x---x-------x---x-------x---|
Slk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 21, 41, 91, 95, 99, 101 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-44 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slk?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Slk hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Slk?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 21, 41, 91, 95, 99, 101 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED