Eyeless (7/5 string version) · Slipknot

193 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 24 and 27-33, and 3 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
EYELESS (7/5 STRING VERSION) · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 15 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 14-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 20 sections: 103 keep time, 21 are fills, 34 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-34.

COUNT-IN
PART H
PART O
PART O
PART X
CHORUS
PART AL
PART AC
OUTRO
14 groovesAHOHACS+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eyeless (7/5 string version)?

192 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 Eyeless (7/5 string version) hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Eyeless (7/5 string version)?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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