Orphan · Slipknot

248 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-30, 41-47 and 57-60, and 5 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ORPHAN · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 13, 14, 32, 35, 37, 38 and 29 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 26 sections: 147 keep time, 35 are fills, 30 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 149-170.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
15 groovesPDEXL+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Orphan?

150 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 Orphan hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 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 Orphan?

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 13, 14, 32, 35, 37, 38 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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