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The Chapeltown Rag · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 100
Groove H -- Chorus
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0 / 100 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART V
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART V
CHORUS 4
PART L
CHORUS 5
13 groovesHNLBV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Chapeltown Rag on drums

183 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-23, snare through bars 24-70, silence through bars 71-72, snare through bars 73-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-80, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 51, and 5 more places -- 10.2% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Chapeltown Rag -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 20, 22, 23 and 66 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-37 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part V -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Chapeltown Rag?

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 The Chapeltown Rag hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 The Chapeltown Rag?

27 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 20, 22, 23 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED