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Liberate · Slipknot

EXERCISE 19 OF 74
Join Part J to Part N (bars 20-22)
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PART E
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AI
PART AM
PART AO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesQAOEAID+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Liberate on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-38, snare through bars 39-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-73, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 55-57, and 1 more place -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 20, 32 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-27 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Liberate?

137 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 Liberate hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Liberate?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 20, 32 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED