Left Behind · Slipknot

144 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35 and 37, and 13 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LEFT BEHIND · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 35 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 5-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 9 sections: 90 keep time, 41 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-144.

PART S2
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMHAMAAS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Left Behind?

160 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 Left Behind hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Left Behind?

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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