Till We Die (1 Step Down For Bass) · Slipknot

130 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 74 BPM, 5:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-16, 33-36 and 53-60, and 3 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
TILL WE DIE (1 STEP DOWN FOR BASS) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 40, 52, 64 and 101.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 13 sections: 111 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-121.

CHORUS
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 5
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Till We Die (1 Step Down For Bass)?

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 Till We Die (1 Step Down For Bass) hard to play on drums?

30 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Till We Die (1 Step Down For Bass)?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 40, 52, 64 and 101.

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