The Dying Song (Time to Sing) · Slipknot

156 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-71, 96 and 117, and 4 more places -- 13.4% 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
THE DYING SONG (TIME TO SING) · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 26, 30, 38 and 15 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 19 sections: 89 keep time, 21 are fills, 10 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-71.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART O
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
OUTRO
13 groovesACEOWB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dying Song (Time to Sing)?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Dying Song (Time to Sing) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

156 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 23 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 Dying Song (Time to Sing)?

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 26, 30, 38 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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