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Override · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove G -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
8 groovesGBSDS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Override on drums

175 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, toms through bars 37-43, snare through bars 44-52, hi-hat through bars 53-76 and toms through bars 77-83, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-59, 85-99 and 138-152 -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    45
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Override -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 43, 44, 60, 83, 84, 100 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-61 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-117 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Override?

135 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 Override hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Override?

7 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 43, 44, 60, 83, 84, 100 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED