Killers Are Quiet · Slipknot

205 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 9:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
9:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-50, 60 and 62, and 5 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
KILLERS ARE QUIET · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 35, 43, 51, 53, 55, 56 and 31 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 24 sections: 118 keep time, 37 are fills, 3 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 173-199.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART B
PART BH
15 groovesJHBBHC+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killers Are Quiet?

85 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 Killers Are Quiet hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 9:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 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, 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 Killers Are Quiet?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 35, 43, 51, 53, 55, 56 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
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