Corey Taylor talks to schoolkids about Slipknot: “It all stemmed from me just loving to sing”

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Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor recently spoke to schoolchildren about Slipknot’s music, answering questions posed by ten and 11 year-olds.Appearing on BBC Sounds with host Craig Charles last Thursday (September 29), Taylor was grilled by US fifth-graders.When asked whether Slipknot have songs that change time signatures, Taylor replied: “‘Vermillion’ [2004] is actually a song that goes from three-four into four-four and kind of back and forth.

I think there’s a section in there that goes from three-four to seven-eight, actually, which is very weird.“It all kind of ties together with a riff that could go either way.

And it allows us to kind of flow back and forth between them.”Another child asked Taylor how he became a musician, to which he replied: “It all started with singing when I was about 10 years old.

And I realised that I could pick up a guitar and I could find the notes that were being played on the song that I was listening to, which, I then realised that I had what is called pitch.“It’s not perfect pitch, but it’s darn close… I taught myself how to play guitar, so I could write songs… then it was just a matter of getting people together to jam and have fun and dance.