Sulfur · Slipknot

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 12 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
SULFUR · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 43 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 3-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 12 sections: 59 keep time, 49 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-82.

PART K
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AL
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesTMKALAX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sulfur?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sulfur hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

123 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sulfur?

22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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