Yen · Slipknot

146 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-38 and 65-70 -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
YEN · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46 and 57 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 52-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time and 63 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

CHORUS
PART E
PART K
PART E
PART J
PART X
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAALEKAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yen?

137 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Yen hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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 Yen?

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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