Skeptic · Slipknot

223 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 9:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
9:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 16-19 and 21-24, and 9 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 94 BPM
SKEPTIC · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 30, 35, 36 and 75 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 9-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 12 sections: 116 keep time, 81 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-29.

PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AH
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesOAHGAXB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skeptic?

94 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 Skeptic hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 9:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 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 Skeptic?

30 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 30, 35, 36 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
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