Knight Of The Wind · Crush 40

190 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-15 and 17, and 15 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
KNIGHT OF THE WIND · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 16, 20, 36 and 24 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 18 sections: 114 keep time, 30 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-31.

CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
PART AH
8 groovesCOMGN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knight Of The Wind?

170 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 Of The Wind hard to play on drums?

58 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Knight Of The Wind?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 16, 20, 36 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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