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Scream · Slipknot

EXERCISE 10 OF 77
Fill at bar 44 and 64 (a small one)
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0 / 77 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART A
PART F
PART J
PART L
PART P
PART L
PART P
CHORUS
PART AH
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesWLFPAH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Scream on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
85/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-68, snare through bars 69-84 and kick and crashes through bars 85-88, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 5 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 40 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-45 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-130 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Scream?

115 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 Scream hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Scream?

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 40 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED