Surfacing · Slipknot

193 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-43, 46-49 and 98-105, and 4 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
SURFACING · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 44, 45, 52 and 43 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 19 sections: 80 keep time, 49 are fills, 37 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AH
OUTRO 2
14 groovesIOAHDA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Surfacing?

210 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 Surfacing hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Surfacing?

20 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 44, 45, 52 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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