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Sarcastrophe · Slipknot

EXERCISE 10 OF 83
Groove I -- Part I
118 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART T
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJTAVAF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sarcastrophe on drums

234 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 9:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
9:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, silence through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-56, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-53 and 55, and 6 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Sarcastrophe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 50, 54, 56 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, T -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-210 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-122 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 99-126 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sarcastrophe?

101 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 Sarcastrophe hard to play on drums?

59 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 9:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Sarcastrophe?

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 50, 54, 56 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED