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Slit Wrist Theory · 36 Crazyfists

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove E -- Part E
0 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesFEKS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slit Wrist Theory on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-54, snare through bars 55-58, hi-hat through bars 59-67, snare through bars 68-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-84, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 34-40 and 81-83 -- 21.8% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x--x--x--xx--xx-|
Slit Wrist Theory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 24, 26, 28, 46, 48 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-51 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-59 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slit Wrist Theory?

95 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 Slit Wrist Theory hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Wrist Theory?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 24, 26, 28, 46, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED