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The Dying Song (Time to Sing) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 25 OF 83
Join Part E to Part O (bars 38-40)
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COUNT-IN
PART E
PART O
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
OUTRO
13 groovesACEOWB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dying Song (Time to Sing) on drums

156 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-38, hi-hat through bars 39-42, toms through bars 43-48 and snare through bars 49-72, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-71, 96 and 117, and 4 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-----------x-------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Dying Song (Time to Sing) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 26, 30, 38 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Dying Song (Time to Sing)?

190 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 Dying Song (Time to Sing) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

156 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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 Dying Song (Time to Sing)?

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 26, 30, 38 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED