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Interloper · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART R
PART AB
PART AI
OUTRO 2
12 groovesPAPKRD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Interloper on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-30 and snare through bars 31-32, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-8, 10 and 12 -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                                                6
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------------------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x--------------x--------x-----x-----|
BD |x--x-----x-----------x--------x-----------------|x--x-----x-----------x--------x--x--------------|
Interloper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-27 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-42 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Interloper?

148 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 Interloper hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Interloper?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED