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Nero Forte · Slipknot

EXERCISE 17 OF 61
Groove G
93 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART B
PART N
PART R
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEJBAAW+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nero Forte on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-28, toms through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-38 and toms through bars 39-40, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----x-----|
Nero Forte -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 15, 16, 29, 30, 39, 40 and 21 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-49 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-98 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nero Forte?

130 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 Nero Forte hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Nero Forte?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 15, 16, 29, 30, 39, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED