Slow an' Easy · Whitesnake

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 13-14 and 17-18, and 5 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SLOW AN' EASY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 24, 49 and 9 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time, 15 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-66.

CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFJOM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow an' Easy?

80 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 Slow an' Easy hard to play on drums?

32 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Slow an' Easy?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 24, 49 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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