God Knows · Knocked Loose

112 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-34 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
GOD KNOWS · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11 and 15 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 10 sections: 52 keep time, 22 are fills, 29 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-59.

PART B
CHORUS
PART V
PART AA
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesRBAIVAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Knows?

198 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is God Knows hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 God Knows?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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