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Solway Firth · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 83
Groove V -- Part V
0 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
CHORUS
PART S3
PART M
PART R
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART V
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCVMALR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Solway Firth on drums

187 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-28, toms through bars 29-30, silence through bars 31-37, toms through bars 38-39 and snare through bars 40-49, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-66, 68-73 and 96-100, and 3 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Solway Firth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 23 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- V, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-40 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-60 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-79 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Solway Firth?

161 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 Solway Firth hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 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 Solway Firth?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 23 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED