{"id":37175,"date":"2022-09-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=37175"},"modified":"2022-09-02T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T17:57:01","slug":"pop-drummer-hears-slipknot-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/pop-drummer-hears-slipknot-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"We Dared This Pop Drummer To Play &#8220;Before I Forget&#8221; By Slipknot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WeuskcJyoBQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>This pop drummer has never listened to Slipknot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So naturally, we challenged her to play one of the metal band&#8217;s most popular songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Domino Santantonio is known for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/the-top-10-pop-beats-of-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">upbeat pop drum covers<\/a> of artists like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/domino-santantonio-dont-start-now-dua-lipa-drum-playthrough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dua Lipa<\/a> and SAINt JHN. For her, drumming to metal would be like trying to speak a language without being fluent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we love encouraging drummers to get outside of their comfort zone, and Domino was up for it. Though she opted not to use the double pedal we set up on her kit, she found a way to make Slipknot&#8217;s &#8220;Before I Forget&#8221; her own (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">get the full song transcription in Drumeo<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without knowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/genius-of-joey-jordison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joey Jordison<\/a>&#8216;s famous drum part in advance, Domino managed to hit many of the punches. And while some of her ideas were very different from the original drum part she still made some accurate guesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the video to see how she builds her parts, reevaluates her decision-making, and explains her thought process. You&#8217;ve never heard Slipknot like this before!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn from Domino as she encourages and coaches you through this month&#8217;s unprecedented drum workout program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/drumshop\/30-day-drummer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">30-Day Drummer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you enjoy watching pro drummers sweat while attempting songs outside of their usual style, watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/fusion-drummer-attempts-metal-larnell-lewis-enter-sandman-metallica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Larnell Lewis try &#8220;Enter Sandman&#8221; by Metallica<\/a> and see what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/dennis-chambers-funk-drummer-schism-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dennis Chambers does with &#8220;Schism&#8221; by Tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We dared Domino Santantonio, a pop drummer, to attempt &#8220;Before I Forget&#8221; by Slipknot. She&#8217;s never heard the band before. How&#8217;d she do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":37197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4016,4024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-songs","category-song-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37175"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37219,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37175\/revisions\/37219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}