The Shape (Studio Version) · Slipknot

212 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59 and 61, and 17 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
THE SHAPE (STUDIO VERSION) · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 10, 17, 18, 25, 26 and 37 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 20 sections: 105 keep time, 43 are fills and 41 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-121.

PART F
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AH
PART AR
CHORUS 4
PART BF
13 groovesVARAHFQ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Shape (Studio Version)?

192 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 Shape (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

56 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Shape (Studio Version)?

14 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 10, 17, 18, 25, 26 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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