Slow It Down - drum tab · Benson Boone

57 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 1:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:14
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 15-16, and 5 more places -- 59.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 186 BPM
SLOW IT DOWN - DRUM TAB · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 5 sections: 42 keep time, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-21.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow It Down - drum tab?

186 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Slow It Down - drum tab hard to play on drums?

38 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 1:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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