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Welcome · Slipknot

EXERCISE 14 OF 83
Groove L -- Part L
71 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART C
PART L
PART Q
PART L
PART Q
PART Y
PART C
PART AE
PART AK
PART AM
OUTRO
11 groovesUCAEQAK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome on drums

163 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-6, toms through bars 7-16, hi-hat through bars 17-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-70, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-48, 71-77 and 139-145 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42               43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x-----|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|----x-x-x-x-x---|
Welcome -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- U, N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 13-36 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Welcome?

194 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 Welcome hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Welcome?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED