My Plague (Studio Version) · Slipknot

159 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29-31 and 35-36, and 18 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 171 BPM
MY PLAGUE (STUDIO VERSION) · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 23 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 16 sections: 101 keep time, 29 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-48.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 4
PART H
PART AE
PART R
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesKOCAER+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Plague (Studio Version)?

171 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 My Plague (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

62 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 My Plague (Studio Version)?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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