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Lech · Slipknot

EXERCISE 12 OF 73
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 5
PART U
PART AF
PART AM
OUTRO
8 groovesBALUFAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lech on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-25, snare through bars 26-27 and toms through bars 28-29, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 26-27, and 6 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxx-x-----|
Lech -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 9, 25, 28 and 54 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-45 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 5 and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part U and Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part AB -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB and Part AF -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lech?

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 Lech hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lech?

20 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 9, 25, 28 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED