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All Out Life (Complete) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 23 OF 71
3-bar fill at bar 50
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CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AD
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
11 groovesBEIWAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Out Life (Complete) on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
91/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, toms through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-31, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 38-40 and 42, and 6 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-----xx|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
All Out Life (Complete) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 33 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-34 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-54 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 55-76 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is All Out Life (Complete)?

105 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 All Out Life (Complete) hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 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 All Out Life (Complete)?

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 33 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED