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EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGAOELFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow And Stoned on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-64, ride through bars 65-72, hi-hat through bars 73-80, snare through bars 81-96 and toms through bars 97-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-19, and 7 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                                                2
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
T1 |------------------------------x-----x-----------|------------------------------------------------|
T2 |------------x-----x-----------------------------|x-----------------x-----------------------------|
FT |x-----x-----------------x-----------------x-----|------x--x--x-----------x-----x-----x--x--x--x--|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
HF |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
Slow And Stoned -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 16.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-106 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slow And Stoned?

108 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 Slow And Stoned hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Slow And Stoned?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 16.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED