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Knights (Planet of Ice) · Minus The Bear

Knights (Planet of Ice) · Minus The Bear
EXERCISE 26 OF 60
Groove P -- Part P
75 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, PART S
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knights (Planet of Ice) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 3-72, snare through bars 73-79, hi-hat through bars 80-104, silence through bars 105-106, hi-hat through bars 107-136 and ride through bars 137-142, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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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 (Planet of Ice) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-69 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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