Gematria (The Killing Name) [Studio Version] · Slipknot

287 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 10 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
GEMATRIA (THE KILLING NAME) [STUDIO VERSION] · BARS 116-117
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 10, 13, 18, 21, 24 and 37 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

287 bars across 24 sections: 185 keep time, 43 are fills and 25 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 244-268.

PART I
CHORUS
PART W
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART AX
CHORUS 3
PART BO
PART BX
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
19 groovesNCMIZBO+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gematria (The Killing Name) [Studio Version]?

215 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 Gematria (The Killing Name) [Studio Version] hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 110 exercises over 41 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) [Studio Version]?

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 10, 13, 18, 21, 24 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED
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