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Till We Die (1 Step Down For Bass) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
CHORUS 5
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Till We Die (1 Step Down For Bass) on drums

130 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 74 BPM, 5:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

30 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
130
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
30/100

snare through bars 3-16, hi-hat through bars 17-52, snare through bars 53-60, hi-hat through bars 61-85, snare through bars 86-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-121, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-16, 33-36 and 53-60, and 3 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
FT |x-----------|
BD |x---------x-|
Till We Die (1 Step Down For Bass) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 40, 52, 64 and 101.

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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 37-88 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Till We Die (1 Step Down For Bass)?

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 Till We Die (1 Step Down For Bass) hard to play on drums?

30 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Till We Die (1 Step Down For Bass)?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 40, 52, 64 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED