Finale · Slipknot

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-24, 26-28 and 38-40, and 4 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 107 BPM
FINALE · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 19, 20, 25, 29, 37 and 5 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 9 sections: 51 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-78.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesFCLJS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Finale?

107 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 Finale hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Finale?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 19, 20, 25, 29, 37 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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