'Til We Die · Slipknot

129 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 74 BPM, 5:12 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 33-36 and 53-60, and 3 more places -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
'TIL WE DIE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 52.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 115 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-129.

CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 'Til We Die?

74 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 'Til We Die hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 'Til We Die?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 52.

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