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Prosthetics · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove F -- Part F
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesRNS1CZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prosthetics on drums

97 bars, 5:19, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, snare through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60 and toms through bars 61-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27 -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-o---o---o---o-o-o---o---o---o-|
Prosthetics -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 40 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- F, N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-41 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-81 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prosthetics?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Prosthetics hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Prosthetics?

17 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 40 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED