Slow Hand · Pointer Sister Sing it Live

112 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 32 more places -- 66.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SLOW HAND · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 35, 111 and 112.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 111-112 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars: 106 keep time, 4 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-110.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Hand?

112 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 Hand hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 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 Hand?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 35, 111 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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