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Take A Slice · Glass Animals

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Verse
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CHORUS
VERSE
PART S3
OUTRO
VERSE 2
3 groovesACS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take A Slice on drums

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

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-37, silence through bars 38-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-62.

The beat

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.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x--x-x|
Take A Slice -- 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 24.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C, A -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-62 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED