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Finale · Slipknot

EXERCISE 3 OF 41
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
33 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART L
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesFCLJS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Finale on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-29, toms through bars 30-35 and snare through bars 36-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-24, 26-28 and 38-40, and 4 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22               23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x--x|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|xxxx--x---x---x-|
Finale -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 19, 20, 25, 29, 37 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Finale?

107 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 Finale hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Finale?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 19, 20, 25, 29, 37 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED