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Carve · Slipknot

EXERCISE 13 OF 78
Fill at bar 28 and 64 (a small one)
32 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART AB
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AB
PART AH
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesABPAQAHH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carve on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, toms through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15 -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
HH |------o--o--------o--------o--o-----------o-----|
Carve -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 26 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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, Z -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-27 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carve?

102 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 Carve hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Carve?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 26 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED