Solway Firth · Slipknot

187 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-66, 68-73 and 96-100, and 3 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 161 BPM
SOLWAY FIRTH · BAR 60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 23 and 41 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 15 sections: 91 keep time, 47 are fills, 19 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-155.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART M
PART R
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART V
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCVMALR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Solway Firth?

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

Is Solway Firth hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 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 Solway Firth?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 23 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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