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Dead Memories (Full) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 20 OF 73
Groove M
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PART A
PART E
PART J
PART Q
CHORUS
PART Z
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesTQES12A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Memories (Full) on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-32, toms through bars 33-41 and snare through bars 42-48, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-46, 71-75 and 79-83, and 2 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42                               43
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---x-x-|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|x---x-------x-------x-----------|
Dead Memories (Full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 17, 33, 41 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- T, Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Memories (Full)?

130 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 Dead Memories (Full) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 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, 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 Dead Memories (Full)?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 17, 33, 41 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED