Spit It Out · Slipknot

93 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 10 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SPIT IT OUT · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 22, 26, 36 and 6 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGAMTR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spit It Out?

140 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 Spit It Out hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Spit It Out?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 22, 26, 36 and 6 more.

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