Slow Song · Mock Orange

166 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-41, 59-64 and 68-73, and 1 more place -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
SLOW SONG · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 32, 33, 48 and 30 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 65-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 7 sections: 116 keep time, 36 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-166.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCAELAOUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Song?

178 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 Song hard to play on drums?

59 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Song?

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 32, 33, 48 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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