Stinkfist · Tool

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21, 34-36 and 38-40 -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
STINKFIST · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 25, 45, 46, 47, 48, 60 and 27 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 60-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 33 are fills, 3 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesDAEUS1F+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stinkfist?

87 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 Stinkfist hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Stinkfist?

4 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 25, 45, 46, 47, 48, 60 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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