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Surfacing · Slipknot

EXERCISE 12 OF 92
Fill at bar 33, 157 and 184 (a small one)
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0 / 92 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART AH, OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AH
OUTRO 2
14 groovesIOAHDA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surfacing on drums

193 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
71/100

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 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-43, 46-49 and 98-105, and 4 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|
HH |--------o-------|
SD |--x-----x---x-x-|
BD |x---x-x---x-----|
Surfacing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 44, 45, 52 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, Y -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Surfacing?

210 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?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Surfacing?

20 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 44, 45, 52 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED