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The Virus Of Life · Slipknot

EXERCISE 29 OF 52
Join Chorus 2 to Part M (bars 91-93)
125 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART M
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
OUTRO
10 groovesEQMCJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Virus Of Life on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-50, toms through bars 51-53, snare through bars 54-58, toms through bars 59-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-68, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-50 and 77-90 -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37               38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----------------|----------X-----|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
FT |-xx-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x---x---|
BD |xxx-x-x-xxx-x-x-|xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Virus Of Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 59, 60, 91, 92, 100, 108 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- E, Q -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-40 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-93 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-118 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 123-133 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Virus Of Life?

128 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 Virus Of Life hard to play on drums?

51 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Virus Of Life?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 59, 60, 91, 92, 100, 108 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED