Opium Of The People · Slipknot

107 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-46, 48-50 and 82, and 4 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
OPIUM OF THE PEOPLE · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 14, 18, 19 and 21 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 14 sections: 56 keep time, 27 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-70.

PART D
PART M
PART U
CHORUS
PART U
OUTRO
10 groovesXUDJAT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Opium Of The People?

127 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 Opium Of The People hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Opium Of The People?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 14, 18, 19 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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