Liberate · Slipknot

114 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 55-57, and 1 more place -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
LIBERATE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 20, 32 and 21 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 14 sections: 61 keep time, 27 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-62.

PART E
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AI
PART AM
PART AO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesQAOEAID+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Liberate?

137 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 Liberate hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Liberate?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 20, 32 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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