Custer · Slipknot

139 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-58, 92-98 and 132-134, and 1 more place -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
CUSTER · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 11, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35 and 22 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 15 sections: 79 keep time, 28 are fills, 16 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-85.

PART B
PART H
PART B
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNBHRAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Custer?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Custer hard to play on drums?

58 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Custer?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 11, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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