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Slit My Wrist · Murderdolls

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART AA
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLCEAAX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slit My Wrist on drums

165 bars, 9:00, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-68, hi-hat through bars 69-76 and snare through bars 77-100, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 53-54 and 57-67, and 1 more place -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Slit My Wrist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 52, 68 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C, E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-56 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-85 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slit My Wrist?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Slit My Wrist hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Slit My Wrist?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 52, 68 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED