Diluted · Slipknot

133 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-12 and 81-83, and 1 more place -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 157 BPM
DILUTED · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 17, 30, 52, 54, 58 and 6 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 17 sections: 80 keep time, 12 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-15.

CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART R
PART N
PART R
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AN
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDRUKN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diluted?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Diluted hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 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 Diluted?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 17, 30, 52, 54, 58 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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