Nero Forte · Slipknot

169 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
NERO FORTE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 15, 16, 29, 30, 39, 40 and 21 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 16 sections: 106 keep time, 27 are fills, 17 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 145-156.

CHORUS
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART B
PART N
PART R
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEJBAAW+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nero Forte?

130 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 Nero Forte hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Nero Forte?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 15, 16, 29, 30, 39, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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