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New Abortion (Studio Version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 93
Groove R
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PART C
PART F
PART E
PART M
PART P
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AF
CHORUS 3
10 groovesSEMPAF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 14
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Abortion (Studio Version) on drums

204 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40 and snare through bars 41-49, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66, 68 and 70, and 24 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
New Abortion (Studio Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 9, 17, 24, 25, 33, 41 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- R, E, S -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Abortion (Studio Version)?

216 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 New Abortion (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

61 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 New Abortion (Studio Version)?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 9, 17, 24, 25, 33, 41 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED