Wait And Bleed (8) · Slipknot

113 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 37-39 and 41-43, and 11 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 184 BPM
WAIT AND BLEED (8) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 44, 51, 53, 55, 63, 71 and 5 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 86 keep time, 11 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-103.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDGAM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wait And Bleed (8)?

184 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 Wait And Bleed (8) hard to play on drums?

56 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wait And Bleed (8)?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 44, 51, 53, 55, 63, 71 and 5 more.

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