The Blister Exists · Slipknot

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 62, 64 and 66-69, and 1 more place -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
THE BLISTER EXISTS · BARS 66-67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 13, 17, 21, 29, 33 and 13 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 18 sections: 82 keep time and 19 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-116.

PART H
PART W
CHORUS
PART W
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesABWHLAA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Blister Exists?

95 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 The Blister Exists hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 The Blister Exists?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 13, 17, 21, 29, 33 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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