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Three Nil · Slipknot

EXERCISE 2 OF 84
Groove AC -- Part AC
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PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART AC
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEACGAOC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Three Nil on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
96/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-36, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 40-42 and 60-62, and 1 more place -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Three Nil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 27, 31, 39 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-26 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-33 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-38 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Three Nil?

100 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 Three Nil hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Three Nil?

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 27, 31, 39 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED