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Knee Socks · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBGS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knee Socks on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-41, toms through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-50 and toms through bars 51-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-28, and 15 more places -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Knee Socks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-72 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Knee Socks?

98 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 Knee Socks hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED