Wait And Bleed - Drop A# Tuning · Slipknot

113 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 2 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
WAIT AND BLEED - DROP A# TUNING · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 24, 28, 32 and 26 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 36-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 11 sections: 66 keep time, 32 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-104.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART R
PART L
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIYLRA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wait And Bleed - Drop A# Tuning?

162 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 - Drop A# Tuning hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Wait And Bleed - Drop A# Tuning?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 24, 28, 32 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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