Knight Without a Name · Draugveil

113 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-63 and 97-111 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
KNIGHT WITHOUT A NAME · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 64, 66, 88 and 2 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART D
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGEDMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knight Without a Name?

140 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 Knight Without a Name hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Without a Name?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 64, 66, 88 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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