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Slow an' Easy · Whitesnake

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 36 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART O
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFJOM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow an' Easy on drums

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.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16 and kick and crashes through bars 17-18, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Slow an' Easy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B, F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-56 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-101 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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