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The Devil In I · Slipknot

EXERCISE 18 OF 41
Groove H
90 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGJBQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Devil In I on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
94/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-41, snare through bars 42-53 and ride through bars 54-69, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-40 and 54-68 -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
BD |x-------g-------g-------g---g---|
The Devil In I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 51, 79, 81, 83, 84 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-44 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Devil In I?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Devil In I hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 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 Devil In I?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 51, 79, 81, 83, 84 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED