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DELTARUNE-Black Knife · Toby Fox

EXERCISE 2 OF 16
Groove A -- Part A
96 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DELTARUNE-Black Knife on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
83/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-120, kick and crashes through bars 121-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-144.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-|
BD |xx--xx--xx-x-x--|
DELTARUNE-Black Knife -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is DELTARUNE-Black Knife?

147 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 DELTARUNE-Black Knife hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 DELTARUNE-Black Knife?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED