Metabolic · Slipknot

192 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 68-74, 77 and 79, and 6 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 179 BPM
METABOLIC · BARS 68-69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 32 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 20 sections: 112 keep time, 38 are fills, 17 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-65.

PART A
PART O
PART V
PART V
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAIVOKA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metabolic?

179 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 Metabolic hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Metabolic?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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