The Virus Of Life · Slipknot

164 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-50 and 77-90 -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE VIRUS OF LIFE · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 59, 60, 91, 92, 100, 108 and 5 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 15 sections: 118 keep time, 11 are fills and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-52.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
10 groovesEQMCJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Virus Of Life?

128 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 Virus Of Life hard to play on drums?

51 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 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 Virus Of Life?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 59, 60, 91, 92, 100, 108 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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