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The Blister Exists (Studio Version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 27 OF 88
Groove U
120 / 251 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART J
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART AH
PART AK
CHORUS 6
PART AE
OUTRO 2
14 groovesPJAEAKAH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 18
LINK · 9
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Blister Exists (Studio Version) on drums

251 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34 and snare through bars 35-42, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 59-65 and 83-85, and 15 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-------x---x---x---|
The Blister Exists (Studio Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 50, 58, 70 and 17 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, AF (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-83 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Blister Exists (Studio Version)?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Blister Exists (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 The Blister Exists (Studio Version)?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 50, 58, 70 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED