De Sade · Slipknot

155 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 124-130, 132-134 and 136, and 2 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
DE SADE · BAR 125
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 19, 23, 24, 25, 27, 31 and 39 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 18 sections: 77 keep time, 45 are fills, 6 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-56.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART S
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAGDNQZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is De Sade?

135 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 De Sade hard to play on drums?

64 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 De Sade?

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 19, 23, 24, 25, 27, 31 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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