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Knife Prty · Deftones

EXERCISE 16 OF 45
Run G1 · Part G (bars 35-40)
69 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S3
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJCS1S3T+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knife Prty on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-24, ride through bars 25-51, silence through bars 52-54 and ride through bars 55-78, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-42, 45-46 and 49, and 7 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41                               42
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------X---------g---X-----|------------X-----------X-----g-|
T1 |--------------------------------|------------------X-------------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-------|x-----x-------------------------|
Knife Prty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 40, 42, 43, 44, 46 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-62 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-72 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Knife Prty?

110 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 Knife Prty hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Knife Prty?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 40, 42, 43, 44, 46 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED