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Slow Hands · Interpol

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow Hands on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-76, silence through bars 77-79, ride through bars 80-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-103.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-91 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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