Sarcastrophe · Slipknot

234 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 9:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
9:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-53 and 55, and 6 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 101 BPM
SARCASTROPHE · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 50, 54, 56 and 42 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 56-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 21 sections: 101 keep time, 48 are fills, 52 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART T
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJTAVAF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sarcastrophe?

101 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 Sarcastrophe hard to play on drums?

59 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 9:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Sarcastrophe?

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 50, 54, 56 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
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