Snail · Smashing Pumpkins

81 bars, 7:03, at 53 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
53 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
7:03
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-66 -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 53 BPM
SNAIL · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 13, 14, 17 and 25 more.

LOOP · 53 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 53 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 53 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 53 BPM
BARS 24-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 8 sections: 29 keep time, 31 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-68.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesLAEHS8D+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Snail?

53 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 Snail hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 7:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Snail?

7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 13, 14, 17 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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