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Slow Ride · Foghat

Slow Ride · Foghat
EXERCISE 24 OF 50
Run H1 · Part H (bars 26-35)
89 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow Ride on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-114.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Slow Ride -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- F, O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-35 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-39 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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