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knives and pens · Black Veil Brides

EXERCISE 26 OF 27
Run R1 · Outro 2 (bars 61-97)
95 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART S2
PART I
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesRIHS2F+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play knives and pens 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.

70 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
70/100

snare through bars 2-3, toms through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-12 and toms through bars 13-17, and 25 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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- N, O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-14 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-25 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-97 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is knives and pens?

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 hard to play on drums?

70 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 23 exercises over 8 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 knives and pens?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED