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Knight Jumps Queen · Annihilator

EXERCISE 3 OF 19
Groove E -- Part E
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knight Jumps Queen on drums

154 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, ride through bars 49-54, hi-hat through bars 55-78 and ride through bars 79-86, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 11 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Knight Jumps Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 48, 54, 78, 85, 86 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-95 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Knight Jumps Queen?

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

Is Knight Jumps Queen hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Knight Jumps Queen?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 48, 54, 78, 85, 86 and 7 more.

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