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Opium Of The People · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove U -- Part U
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0 / 64 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
PART D
PART M
PART U
CHORUS
PART U
OUTRO
10 groovesXUDJAT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Opium Of The People on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-27, snare through bars 28-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-35, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-46, 48-50 and 82, and 4 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-------x---|
Opium Of The People -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 14, 18, 19 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- U -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-15 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-21 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-28 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 18-36 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Opium Of The People?

127 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 Opium Of The People hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Opium Of The People?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 14, 18, 19 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED