Slow Ride · Foghat

114 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 20 and 22, and 13 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
SLOW RIDE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 34, 38, 40, 52, 61 and 6 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 10 sections: 85 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-111.

PART A
PART F
PART H
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesOHFEA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Ride?

114 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 Ride hard to play on drums?

57 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ride?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 34, 38, 40, 52, 61 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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