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Nomadic · Slipknot

EXERCISE 5 OF 110
Groove K -- Part K
32 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 110 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART E
PART K
PART K
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART X
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
12 groovesPKIAUX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nomadic on drums

200 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-103, kick and crashes through bars 104-105, silence through bars 106-111 and snare through bars 112-126, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-48 and 54-56, and 6 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x---x-|
Nomadic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

31 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 67 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- P -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, AU -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-188 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 6-27 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nomadic?

188 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 Nomadic hard to play on drums?

59 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nomadic?

31 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED