Crazy Knight · Paul Dickens

52 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-55 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CRAZY KNIGHT · BAR 48
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 24, 25, 29, 32, 33 and 2 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 11 sections: 33 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-55.

CHORUS
PART K
PART S5
PART T
PART AA
PART S9
OUTRO
11 groovesCAATABK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crazy Knight?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Crazy Knight hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Crazy Knight?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 24, 25, 29, 32, 33 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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