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Iowa · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 105
Groove B -- Part B
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PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART X
BREAK 2
PART BX
OUTRO
23 groovesNBAXS12+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 24
LINK · 13
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Iowa on drums

548 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 14:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
548
LENGTH
14:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 1-96, toms through bars 97-114, hi-hat through bars 115-128, toms through bars 129-146, hi-hat through bars 147-160 and toms through bars 161-178, and 36 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 35, and 36 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x---x---x-------x-------|
Iowa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 98, 113, 114, 129, 130, 138 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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, X -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 78-95 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 176-444 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Iowa?

150 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 Iowa hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

548 bars, about 14:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Iowa?

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 98, 113, 114, 129, 130, 138 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 548 BARS ANALYSED