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Gently (Iowa Version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 48 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAABUFB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gently (Iowa Version) on drums

91 bars, 6:01, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
70/100

ride through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-45, snare through bars 46-47, toms through bars 48-51 and snare through bars 52-59, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17 and 38-39 -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Gently (Iowa Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- A, U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-48 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-52 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gently (Iowa Version)?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Gently (Iowa Version) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Gently (Iowa Version)?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED