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Dead Memories (Studio Version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove W -- Outro
0 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART A
PART E
PART M
CHORUS
PART E
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AM
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQEABUW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Memories (Studio Version) on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, toms through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-48 and toms through bars 49-54, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 73 and 81, and 2 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Dead Memories (Studio Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 17, 24, 25 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- W, Q -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Memories (Studio Version)?

125 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 (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 (Studio Version)?

17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 17, 24, 25 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED