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Vermillion · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 77
Groove Z
0 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
PART H
PART M
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKAOHMC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vermillion on drums

239 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 144 BPM, 5:25 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-14, and 21 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-|
Vermillion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 6, 7, 15, 18, 19, 35 and 54 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- Z, AO -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-80 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vermillion?

144 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 Vermillion hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Vermillion?

25 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 6, 7, 15, 18, 19, 35 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED