Slit Wrist Theory · 36 Crazyfists

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 34-40 and 81-83 -- 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 · 95 BPM
SLIT WRIST THEORY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 24, 26, 28, 46, 48 and 12 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 54-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 53 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesFEKS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slit Wrist Theory?

95 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 Slit Wrist Theory hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Slit Wrist Theory?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 24, 26, 28, 46, 48 and 12 more.

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