Me Inside · Slipknot

159 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31 and 33-40 -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
ME INSIDE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 44, 52, 60 and 20 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 13 sections: 82 keep time, 26 are fills, 29 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-68.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART X
PART AB
PART X
10 groovesNXBABE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Me Inside?

220 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 Me Inside hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Me Inside?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 44, 52, 60 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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