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Wait And Bleed · Slipknot

EXERCISE 26 OF 59
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
70 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART R
PART L
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIYLRA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wait And Bleed on drums

113 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100

ride through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-55 and ride through bars 56-71, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 2 more places -- 11.5% 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+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx---xxx-x---x-|
Wait And Bleed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 24, 28, 32 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-45 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 44-63 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wait And Bleed?

162 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Wait And Bleed hard to play on drums?

64 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Wait And Bleed?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 24, 28, 32 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED