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Gently (MFKR) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 113
Groove C -- Part C
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART L
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AR
PART BR
OUTRO
16 groovesAECARGS1+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gently (MFKR) on drums

197 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-54, toms through bars 55-56, ride through bars 57-62, toms through bars 63-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 23, and 8 more places -- 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-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----x-----------------------x-----|
Gently (MFKR) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- C, BL -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BM -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gently (MFKR)?

145 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 Gently (MFKR) hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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 (MFKR)?

29 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED