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Metabolic (Studio Version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 33 OF 72
Groove AB -- Part AB
113 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB, OUTRO
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AN
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesOANJUG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metabolic (Studio Version) on drums

186 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-40, toms through bars 41-43 and snare through bars 44-51, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 38 and 40, and 3 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Metabolic (Studio Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-123 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metabolic (Studio Version)?

178 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 Metabolic (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Metabolic (Studio Version)?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED