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Slow Hands · Niall Horan

Slow Hands · Niall Horan
EXERCISE 12 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
67 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 67 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow Hands on drums

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

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
33/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-49, hi-hat through bars 50-63 and snare through bars 64-67.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B, A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 14-66 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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