Some Feel · Slipknot

152 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42, 46-47 and 50-51, and 4 more places -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SOME FEEL · BARS 46-47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 8-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 54 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-52.

CHORUS
PART A
PART AP
PART AU
PART BF
PART BJ
PART BJ
12 groovesCBJAAUAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Some Feel?

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

Is Some Feel hard to play on drums?

74 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?

152 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Some Feel?

19 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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