Wait and Bleed (Studio Version) · Slipknot

113 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 45-46, and 4 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 159 BPM
WAIT AND BLEED (STUDIO VERSION) · BAR 86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 28 and 28 more.

LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 159 BPM
BARS 36-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 9 sections: 67 keep time, 34 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART R
PART L
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJRLBC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wait and Bleed (Studio Version)?

159 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 (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

57 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 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Wait and Bleed (Studio Version)?

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 28 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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