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Orphan · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 80
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
15 groovesPDEXL+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Orphan on drums

248 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, toms through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-12 and toms through bars 13-14, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-30, 41-47 and 57-60, and 5 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Orphan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 13, 14, 32, 35, 37, 38 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- D, P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-15 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-68 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Orphan?

150 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 Orphan hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 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 Orphan?

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 13, 14, 32, 35, 37, 38 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED