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Vendetta (Studio Version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 94
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AC
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AM
CHORUS 5
9 groovesDACAMQY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 11
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vendetta (Studio Version) on drums

308 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 205 BPM, 4:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
308
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-18, toms through bars 19-20 and ride through bars 21-40, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-18 and 21-26, and 8 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-----x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Vendetta (Studio Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 76 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, AC -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-44 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-92 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vendetta (Studio Version)?

205 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Vendetta (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

308 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Vendetta (Studio Version)?

25 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 76 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 308 BARS ANALYSED