Vermillion · Slipknot

239 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 144 BPM, 5:25 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
62/100
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 · 144 BPM
VERMILLION · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 6, 7, 15, 18, 19, 35 and 54 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

239 bars across 9 sections: 91 keep time, 60 are fills, 78 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-34.

PART C
PART H
PART M
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKAOHMC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vermillion?

144 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 Vermillion hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Vermillion?

25 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 6, 7, 15, 18, 19, 35 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED
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