Danger - Keep Away · Slipknot

20 bars, 1:09, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
20
LENGTH
1:09
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-11 and 16-17 -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
DANGER - KEEP AWAY · BAR 7
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

20 bars across 2 sections: 16 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Danger - Keep Away?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Danger - Keep Away hard to play on drums?

61 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

20 bars, about 1:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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