Black Knife · Toby Fox

144 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-48, 57-72 and 89-120, and 1 more place -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BLACK KNIFE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 88.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 8 sections: 134 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-48.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Knife?

148 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 Black Knife hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black Knife?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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