Welcome · Slipknot

163 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-48, 71-77 and 139-145 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
WELCOME · BARS 42-43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16 and 32 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 18 sections: 99 keep time, 38 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-88.

PART C
PART Q
PART Q
PART Y
PART C
PART AE
PART AK
PART AM
OUTRO
11 groovesUCAEQAK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Welcome?

194 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 Welcome hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Welcome?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16 and 32 more.

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