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Three Nil (TSV) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 20 OF 99
Groove M -- Part M
137 / 278 BARS COVERED
0 / 99 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART S16
PART AW
CHORUS 5
12 groovesJGCMS16+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Three Nil (TSV) on drums

278 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-33, snare through bars 34-50, hi-hat through bars 51-70 and ride through bars 71-72, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-50, 75-77 and 95-99, and 36 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Three Nil (TSV) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 34, 54, 62, 78 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 11 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-265 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-38 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 52-79 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Three Nil (TSV)?

218 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 Three Nil (TSV) hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

278 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 20 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 (TSV)?

23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 34, 54, 62, 78 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED