Killpop · Slipknot

144 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 58-60 and 62-64, and 4 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
KILLPOP · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 43, 44, 49, 52, 53 and 22 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 13 sections: 85 keep time, 28 are fills, 6 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-143.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART S
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLCISAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Killpop?

163 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 Killpop hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Killpop?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 43, 44, 49, 52, 53 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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