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Do Nothing / Bitchslap · Slipknot

EXERCISE 4 OF 80
Groove AB -- Part AB
41 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AJ
PART AS
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKBCMAJAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Do Nothing / Bitchslap on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-16 and kick and crashes through bars 17-23, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 32-34 and 36-38, and 3 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Do Nothing / Bitchslap -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 23, 39, 41 and 38 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 4-66 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-24 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Do Nothing / Bitchslap?

135 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 Do Nothing / Bitchslap hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:14 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, 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 Do Nothing / Bitchslap?

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 23, 39, 41 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED