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Surfacing:) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
CHORUS 4
PART AB
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCHABAT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surfacing:) on drums

193 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-32, snare through bars 33-41, hi-hat through bars 42-64 and snare through bars 65-81, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32, 50 and 54, and 11 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Surfacing:) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 57, 61, 65 and 38 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-50 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Surfacing:)?

220 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 Surfacing:) hard to play on drums?

61 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Surfacing:)?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 57, 61, 65 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED