Metabolic (Studio Version) · Slipknot

186 bars at 178 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 up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 38 and 40, and 3 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
METABOLIC (STUDIO VERSION) · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 24 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 17 sections: 111 keep time, 30 are fills, 20 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-169.

PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AN
CHORUS 3
13 groovesOANJUG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metabolic (Studio Version)?

178 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 (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 (Studio Version)?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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