Sulfur (Studio Version) · Slipknot

245 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74, 76 and 78, and 35 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SULFUR (STUDIO VERSION) · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 16, 17, 24 and 36 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

245 bars across 16 sections: 115 keep time, 42 are fills and 68 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-48.

PART G
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AG
CHORUS 3
PART AO
OUTRO
10 groovesTMQGAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sulfur (Studio Version)?

190 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 Sulfur (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 (Studio Version)?

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 16, 17, 24 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED
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