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Vermilion · Slipknot

EXERCISE 6 OF 82
Groove H -- Part H
59 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART C
PART H
PART M
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKBIHMC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vermilion on drums

239 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 141 BPM, 5:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-18, toms through bars 19-39, ride through bars 40-47, hi-hat through bars 48-49 and toms through bars 50-58, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81, 83 and 85, and 28 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x---|
BD |--x-x-x---x-|
Vermilion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17 and 60 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AA, BI -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-20 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-23 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-41 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part M -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vermilion?

141 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Vermilion hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 13 sittings, about 30 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 Vermilion?

26 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED