Duality - 5 str. Bass · Slipknot

153 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 52-58, 74-88 and 119-133 -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
DUALITY - 5 STR. BASS · BARS 54-55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27 and 32 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 12 sections: 92 keep time, 38 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-92.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART I
PART P
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART AK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesUPIEAK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Duality - 5 str. Bass?

142 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 Duality - 5 str. Bass hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Duality - 5 str. Bass?

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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