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New Abortion · Slipknot

EXERCISE 16 OF 74
Fill at bar 9
47 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AG
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQGIAGAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Abortion on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
82/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21 and snare through bars 22-25, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-39 and 56-58, and 4 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x-x---x-----x---|
New Abortion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-14 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-42 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Abortion?

113 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 New Abortion hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

103 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 New Abortion?

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED