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Hive Mind · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
CHORUS
PART S
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AC
11 groovesFBACSM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hive Mind on drums

225 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-24, toms through bars 25-27, snare through bars 28-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44 and snare through bars 45-72, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24 and 93-112 -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Hive Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 43, 44 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-81 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hive Mind?

150 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 Hive Mind hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 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 Hive Mind?

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 43, 44 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED