Knights (Planet of Ice) · Minus The Bear

151 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-24 and 42-47, and 1 more place -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 166 BPM
KNIGHTS (PLANET OF ICE) · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 64, 72, 77 and 14 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 77-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 15 sections: 101 keep time, 24 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEACSBG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knights (Planet of Ice)?

166 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 Knights (Planet of Ice) hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Knights (Planet of Ice)?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 64, 72, 77 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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