Slow Dance · Clairo

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-23, 35-43 and 45-47, and 2 more places -- 60.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SLOW DANCE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 29, 30, 66, 78 and 79.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 78-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 8 sections: 62 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-58.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCILBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Dance?

85 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 Dance hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Dance?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 29, 30, 66, 78 and 79.

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