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Sulfur (Studio Version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 6 OF 95
Groove G -- Part G
69 / 245 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART M
PART G
PART Q
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AG
CHORUS 3
PART AO
OUTRO
10 groovesTMQGAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 12
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sulfur (Studio Version) on drums

245 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-31, toms through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-55, snare through bars 56-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-77, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74, 76 and 78, and 35 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |----o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Sulfur (Studio Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 16, 17, 24 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-50 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-59 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sulfur (Studio Version)?

190 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 Sulfur (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

62 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 (Studio Version)?

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 16, 17, 24 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED