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Me Inside · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove E -- Part E
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART X
PART AB
PART X
10 groovesNXBABE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Me Inside on drums

159 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-60, snare through bars 61-69, toms through bars 70-72, hi-hat through bars 73-88 and snare through bars 89-112, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31 and 33-40 -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Me Inside -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 44, 52, 60 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- E, N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Me Inside?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Me Inside hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

159 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Me Inside?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 44, 52, 60 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED