Eyeless (Live at Download 2009) · Slipknot

196 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 109-111, 113 and 117-118, and 6 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
EYELESS (LIVE AT DOWNLOAD 2009) · BARS 109-110
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 23 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 9-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 19 sections: 112 keep time, 29 are fills, 24 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 183-196.

PART H
PART P
PART AB
PART AI
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAGHPWBI+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eyeless (Live at Download 2009)?

188 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 (Live at Download 2009) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

How many fills are in Eyeless (Live at Download 2009)?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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