Gehenna · Slipknot

160 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 41-46, and 4 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
GEHENNA · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 31 and 32 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 14 sections: 108 keep time and 38 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
PART Z
CHORUS 4
PART C
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGPZCA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gehenna?

100 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 Gehenna hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Gehenna?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 31 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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