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The Shape (Studio Version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 15 OF 91
Groove L
82 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART F
PART K
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AH
PART AR
CHORUS 4
PART BF
13 groovesVARAHFQ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Shape (Studio Version) on drums

212 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-55, snare through bars 56-62 and toms through bars 63-64, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59 and 61, and 17 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
The Shape (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 43 times: bars 9, 10, 17, 18, 25, 26 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- U, V -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-80 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Shape (Studio Version)?

192 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 Shape (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

56 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 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 Shape (Studio Version)?

14 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 10, 17, 18, 25, 26 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED