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'Til We Die · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 'Til We Die on drums

129 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 74 BPM, 5:12 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
27/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 33-36 and 53-60, and 3 more places -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
'Til We Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 33-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-79 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 'Til We Die?

74 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 'Til We Die hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 'Til We Die?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED