Not Long For This World · Slipknot

156 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-63, 65-67 and 69-71, and 7 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 16, 20, 45 and 20 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 15 sections: 109 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-44.

PART D
PART H
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJDOHR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not Long For This World?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Not Long For This World hard to play on drums?

63 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?

156 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Not Long For This World?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 16, 20, 45 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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