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Gematria (The Killing Name) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 24 OF 88
Groove X -- Part X
181 / 287 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X
CHORUS
PART X
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART AR
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMADABARJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gematria (The Killing Name) on drums

287 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 5:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-51 and toms through bars 52-56, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 29 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    109              110
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----------|x-x-x-x---x-x---|
Gematria (The Killing Name) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 13, 21, 24, 32, 41, 42 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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, AB -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gematria (The Killing Name)?

216 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gematria (The Killing Name) hard to play on drums?

71 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?

287 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Gematria (The Killing Name)?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 13, 21, 24, 32, 41, 42 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED