Deep in the Willow · Knocked Loose

123 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 35-36 and 67-69, and 3 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
DEEP IN THE WILLOW · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 28 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 11-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 23-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 14 sections: 36 keep time, 34 are fills, 29 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-62.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AC
PART AG
CHORUS 4
PART T
OUTRO
9 groovesCTIAGAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deep in the Willow?

128 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 Deep in the Willow 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Deep in the Willow?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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