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Crawl Through Knives · In Flames

EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove T -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crawl Through Knives on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-23, ride through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-31 and ride through bars 32-49, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
RD |----x-------x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
Crawl Through Knives -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- T, AD -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-63 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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