Prosthetics (Self-Tilted) · Slipknot

86 bars, 4:43, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16 -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 73 BPM
PROSTHETICS (SELF-TILTED) · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 29, 33 and 18 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 17 sections: 45 keep time, 24 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-16.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesLPBYE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prosthetics (Self-Tilted)?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Prosthetics (Self-Tilted) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 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 Prosthetics (Self-Tilted)?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 29, 33 and 18 more.

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