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My Plague (Studio Version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 16 OF 77
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 19-21)
109 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 4
PART H
PART AE
PART R
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesKOCAER+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Plague (Studio Version) on drums

159 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-22, ride through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46 and snare through bars 47-50, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29-31 and 35-36, and 18 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
My Plague (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 29 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- K, O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-92 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-28 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-64 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-75 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Plague (Studio Version)?

171 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 My Plague (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

62 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 My Plague (Studio Version)?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED