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Spiders · System of a Down

EXERCISE 19 OF 24
Join Part B to Part C (bars 80-82)
87 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spiders on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-85, snare through bars 86-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-12, 17-19 and 21-36, and 2 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                        10
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----o-----|
SD |------------x--------ggg|---g--------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|x--------x-----x--x-----|
HF |g-----------------------|------------------------|
Spiders -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 47, 48, 68, 70, 75 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-81 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 78-93 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Spiders?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Spiders hard to play on drums?

53 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Spiders?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 47, 48, 68, 70, 75 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED