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Knights of Shame · Awolnation

Knights of Shame · Awolnation
EXERCISE 26 OF 74
Groove I
187 / 291 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 5
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART S
15 groovesCLSDM+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knights of Shame on drums

291 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 11:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
291
LENGTH
11:36
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-89, kick and crashes through bars 90-97, hi-hat through bars 98-135, kick and crashes through bars 136-137 and hi-hat through bars 138-149, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 33-64 and 85-89, and 6 more places -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 194, 202, 210, 214, 218, 226 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-28 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 63-69 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-93 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 94-118 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 127-186 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Knights of Shame?

100 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 Knights of Shame hard to play on drums?

39 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

291 bars, about 11:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Knights of Shame?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 194, 202, 210, 214, 218, 226 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 291 BARS ANALYSED