The Negative One · Slipknot

275 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 12:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
12:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-56 and 76-90, and 4 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THE NEGATIVE ONE · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 33, 41, 57, 63, 65, 69 and 50 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

275 bars across 22 sections: 129 keep time, 56 are fills, 48 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 186-193.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART G
PART G
PART E
PART AE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesJGEKU+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Negative One?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Negative One hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

275 bars, about 12:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Negative One?

17 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 33, 41, 57, 63, 65, 69 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED
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