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Wonderful Slippery Thing · Erotic Cakes

Wonderful Slippery Thing · Erotic Cakes
EXERCISE 5 OF 43
Groove O -- Part O
18 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART B
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCOBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wonderful Slippery Thing on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 3-26, snare through bars 27-33, hi-hat through bars 34-38, ride through bars 39-46, snare through bars 47-54 and ride through bars 55-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-9 and 20, and 2 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----X-----x--x--x-----o-----X-----o-----|
SD |---g--------x--g-----g-----X--------x--g-----g--|
BD |x--------x--------x--x--------x-----------------|
Wonderful Slippery Thing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 6, 10, 18, 24, 26, 28 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 2-31 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-45 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wonderful Slippery Thing?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Wonderful Slippery Thing hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Wonderful Slippery Thing?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 6, 10, 18, 24, 26, 28 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED