Take A Slice · Glass Animals

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-36 and 47-62 -- 48.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
TAKE A SLICE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 24.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 5 sections: 53 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
VERSE
PART S3
OUTRO
VERSE 2
3 groovesACS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take A Slice?

76 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 Take A Slice hard to play on drums?

52 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Take A Slice?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 24.

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