Vermilion · Slipknot

239 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 141 BPM, 5:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81, 83 and 85, and 28 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 141 BPM
VERMILION · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17 and 60 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 15-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

239 bars across 10 sections: 85 keep time, 66 are fills, 77 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-34.

PART C
PART H
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKBIHMC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vermilion?

141 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Vermilion hard to play on drums?

61 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 13 sittings, about 30 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 Vermilion?

26 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED
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