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(sic) (Studio Version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 3 OF 74
Groove AM -- Part AM
28 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AM, PART R
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S
PART AG
PART AM
PART R
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGAMAUAGO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (sic) (Studio Version) on drums

145 bars at 203 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
203 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
60/100

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 snare through bars 47-52, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17, 32 and 35-36, and 3 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|----------------|
HH |--------o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |----x-------x--x|----x-------xxxx|
BD |x-x---xxx-x---x-|x-x---xxxxxx----|
(sic) (Studio Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 22 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- G, T -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-33 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-97 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is (sic) (Studio Version)?

203 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) (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

60 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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) (Studio Version)?

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 22 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED