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Spit It Out · Slipknot

EXERCISE 22 OF 46
Groove M -- Part M
66 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGAMTR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spit It Out on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, snare through bars 45-53 and silence through bars 54-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 10 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |xxx-x-g-x-g-x-x-|
SD |----x--g----x-xg|
BD |xxx--x--x-xx-x--|
Spit It Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 22, 26, 36 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, T -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 29-53 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spit It Out?

140 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 Spit It Out hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Spit It Out?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 22, 26, 36 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED