Slow Hands · Interpol

103 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-23, and 3 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
SLOW HANDS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 49, 65 and 6 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 12 sections: 70 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDJHOR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Hands?

145 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 Hands hard to play on drums?

54 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Hands?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 49, 65 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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