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Knee Deep · Job For A Cowboy

EXERCISE 1 OF 91
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART Y
PART AD
PART AQ
CHORUS 4
15 groovesCADKAQT+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knee Deep on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-29, snare through bars 30-45, hi-hat through bars 46-50 and snare through bars 51-61, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17-19 and 24, and 8 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Knee Deep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 25, 27 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-26 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Knee Deep?

115 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 Knee Deep hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Knee Deep?

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 25, 27 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED