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Not Long For This World · Slipknot

EXERCISE 38 OF 54
Groove R -- Part R
128 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART D
PART H
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJDOHR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Long For This World on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-44, toms through bars 45-46 and snare through bars 47-94, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-63, 65-67 and 69-71, and 7 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x----x--x-|
Not Long For This World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 16, 20, 45 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-46 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-61 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-95 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Not Long For This World?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Not Long For This World hard to play on drums?

63 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?

156 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Not Long For This World?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 16, 20, 45 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED