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Skeptic · Slipknot

EXERCISE 17 OF 94
Groove H
105 / 223 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AH
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesOAHGAXB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 30
LAND · 30
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skeptic on drums

223 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 9:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
9:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-40, snare through bars 41-46, toms through bars 47-50, hi-hat through bars 51-79 and snare through bars 80-89, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 16-19 and 21-24, and 9 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x--xx---------|
Skeptic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

30 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 30, 35, 36 and 75 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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, O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Skeptic?

94 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 Skeptic hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 9:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 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 Skeptic?

30 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 30, 35, 36 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED