People = Shit · Slipknot

118 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-64, 101-103 and 109-111 -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
PEOPLE = SHIT · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 20, 21 and 26 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 16 sections: 56 keep time, 32 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-41.

PART E
PART J
PART T
PART P
PART G
CHORUS
PART AW
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAHAWAFEG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is People = Shit?

215 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is People = Shit hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 21 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 People = Shit?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 20, 21 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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