Gematria (The Killing Name) · Slipknot

287 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 5:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 29 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 216 BPM
GEMATRIA (THE KILLING NAME) · BARS 109-110
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 13, 21, 24, 32, 41, 42 and 34 more.

LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

287 bars across 22 sections: 152 keep time, 40 are fills and 65 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

CHORUS
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART AR
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMADABARJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gematria (The Killing Name)?

216 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gematria (The Killing Name) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 Gematria (The Killing Name)?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 13, 21, 24, 32, 41, 42 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED
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