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Slow Ride · Sublime

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B -- Verse
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0 / 8 PASSED · 90 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
VERSE
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow Ride on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-28 and 30-40, and 3 more places -- 93.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Slow Ride?

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 Ride hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED