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Critical Darling · Slipknot

EXERCISE 8 OF 68
Run B1 · Part B (bars 5-13)
75 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART X
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDMXIB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Critical Darling on drums

179 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-29, ride through bars 30-36, snare through bars 37-45, hi-hat through bars 46-54 and silence through bars 55-56, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 6 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x--------x-----x--------x--x--|
Critical Darling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 28, 45, 51, 67, 84 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- D, X -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Critical Darling?

132 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 Critical Darling hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Critical Darling?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 28, 45, 51, 67, 84 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED