Birth of the Cruel · Slipknot

143 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 62-68, and 5 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BIRTH OF THE CRUEL · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 30, 42, 46, 53 and 10 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 14 sections: 104 keep time, 16 are fills, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

CHORUS
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEKPABB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Birth of the Cruel?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Birth of the Cruel hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Birth of the Cruel?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 30, 42, 46, 53 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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