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Pulse Of The Maggots · Slipknot

EXERCISE 11 OF 69
Groove H
59 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AA
PART AE
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGAEPUAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pulse Of The Maggots on drums

169 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28 and snare through bars 29-30, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-53, 73-79 and 137-143 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47               48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---xxxx|
BD |x-x-xx-x--x---x-|x--x--x---x-----|
Pulse Of The Maggots -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- P, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-83 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pulse Of The Maggots?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pulse Of The Maggots hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Pulse Of The Maggots?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED