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(Sic) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 11 OF 79
Groove D -- Part D
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0 / 79 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART F
PART I
PART O
PART N
PART S
PART AF
PART AI
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesALNAPIAI+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (Sic) on drums

145 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-38, snare through bars 39-42, hi-hat through bars 43-46 and ride through bars 47-52, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-95, 97-102 and 105-111 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    89
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
(Sic) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 22, 26 and 28 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 -- AL, F -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-10 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-51 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is (Sic)?

192 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 (Sic) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 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 (Sic)?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 22, 26 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED