Unsainted · Slipknot

216 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-56, 59-64 and 93-98, and 2 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
UNSAINTED · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 57, 58, 65, 66, 74, 76 and 48 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 16 sections: 105 keep time, 54 are fills, 23 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-49.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AI
11 groovesMFBADS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unsainted?

202 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 Unsainted hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Unsainted?

15 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 57, 58, 65, 66, 74, 76 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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