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Knives And Pens (Album Version) · Black Veil Brides

EXERCISE 11 OF 32
Fill at bar 9
65 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART K
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesTKJFH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knives And Pens (Album Version) on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 2-3, toms through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-12, toms through bars 13-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-24, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 45-46, and 7 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---------x-----x-----xxxx|
Knives And Pens (Album Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 23 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- P, Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-10 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Knives And Pens (Album Version)?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Knives And Pens (Album Version) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 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 Knives And Pens (Album Version)?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 23 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED