The One That Kills the Least · Slipknot

166 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-53 and 73-84 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
THE ONE THAT KILLS THE LEAST · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 35, 36, 54, 58, 66, 71 and 13 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 15 sections: 98 keep time, 19 are fills, 29 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-20.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AG
PART AI
OUTRO
13 groovesKAIBARO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The One That Kills the Least?

162 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 One That Kills the Least hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 One That Kills the Least?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 35, 36, 54, 58, 66, 71 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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