Crawl Through Knives · In Flames

203 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-66, 68-75 and 110-116, and 6 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
CRAWL THROUGH KNIVES · BAR 60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 2, 5, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 37 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 14 sections: 129 keep time, 43 are fills, 18 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-75.

PART B
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesTADHLAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crawl Through Knives?

210 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 Crawl Through Knives hard to play on drums?

55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Crawl Through Knives?

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 2, 5, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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