slow song · starthestealer

52 bars, 4:37, at 45 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
45 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 16-23 and 35-39, and 1 more place -- 61.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 45 BPM
SLOW SONG · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 9 sections: 40 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-23.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesDBS5S3S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is slow song?

45 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is slow song hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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