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Sulfur · Slipknot

EXERCISE 13 OF 81
Fill at bar 1 (a small one)
41 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART K
PART K
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AL
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesTMKALAX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sulfur on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
93/100

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-29, snare through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-67, toms through bars 68-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-99, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 12 more places -- 12.2% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------x-------------------|
HH |----o---o-------o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----x---x-x-------x-x---x-x---|
Sulfur -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-38 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sulfur?

98 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 Sulfur hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

123 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sulfur?

22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED