Nomadic · Slipknot

200 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-48 and 54-56, and 6 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
NOMADIC · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 67 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 19 sections: 88 keep time, 74 are fills, 15 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 189-195.

PART E
PART K
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART X
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
12 groovesPKIAUX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nomadic?

188 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 Nomadic hard to play on drums?

59 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nomadic?

31 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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