The Nameless · Slipknot

175 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 134-141, 168-170 and 172-173 -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 212 BPM
THE NAMELESS · BARS 134-135
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 28 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 17 sections: 100 keep time, 34 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
PART J
CHORUS
BREAK
PART A
PART AE
BREAK 2
PART AN
PART AR
14 groovesSAAEANAL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Nameless?

212 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 The Nameless hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Nameless?

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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