Slow Hands · Niall Horan

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-34 and 36-42, and 2 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
SLOW HANDS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 55.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 5 sections: 62 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-42.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Hands?

86 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?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Slow Hands?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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