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Custer · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove M -- Part M
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PART B
PART H
PART B
PART M
CHORUS
PART R
PART B
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNBHRAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Custer on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-48 and snare through bars 49-65, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-58, 92-98 and 132-134, and 1 more place -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Custer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 11, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- M, N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-20 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-24 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-59 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Custer?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Custer hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Custer?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 11, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED