Three Nil · Slipknot

139 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 40-42 and 60-62, and 1 more place -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THREE NIL · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 27, 31, 39 and 28 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 14 sections: 78 keep time, 34 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-99.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART AC
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEACGAOC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Three Nil?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Three Nil hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Three Nil?

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 27, 31, 39 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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