Hive Mind · Slipknot

225 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24 and 93-112 -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HIVE MIND · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 43, 44 and 36 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 25-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 64-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 16 sections: 137 keep time, 42 are fills, 25 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 170-199.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AC
11 groovesFBACSM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hive Mind?

150 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 Hive Mind hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Hive Mind?

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 43, 44 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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