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The Negative One · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove G -- Part G
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COUNT-IN
PART E
PART G
PART G
PART E
PART AE
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesJGEKU+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Negative One on drums

275 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 12:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
12:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57, snare through bars 58-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-65, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-56 and 76-90, and 4 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
The Negative One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 33, 41, 57, 63, 65, 69 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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, J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-71 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 105-138 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part AE -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Negative One?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Negative One hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

275 bars, about 12:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Negative One?

17 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 33, 41, 57, 63, 65, 69 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED