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Birth of the Cruel · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEKPABB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Birth of the Cruel on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, snare through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-53, toms through bars 54-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-77, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 62-68, and 5 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                                                10
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
FT |------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------x--x--|
BD |x--------x--x-----x-----------x--------x--x-----|---x--x-----x-----x--------------x-----x--------|
Birth of the Cruel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 30, 42, 46, 53 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Birth of the Cruel?

148 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 Birth of the Cruel hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Birth of the Cruel?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 30, 42, 46, 53 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED