The Devil In I · Slipknot

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-40 and 54-68 -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
THE DEVIL IN I · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 51, 79, 81, 83, 84 and 7 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 83-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 12 sections: 79 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-40.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGJBQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Devil In I?

92 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 Devil In I hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 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 Devil In I?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 51, 79, 81, 83, 84 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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