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God Knows · Knocked Loose

EXERCISE 6 OF 50
Groove E
40 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Knows on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-11, ride through bars 12-21, silence through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-28, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|
God Knows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- R, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-54 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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