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Knock 'Em Dead Kid · Mötley Crüe

EXERCISE 16 OF 34
Join Part H to Chorus 2 (bars 37-39)
91 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGKHES+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knock 'Em Dead Kid on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7, toms through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-85, ride through bars 86-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-101, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-25 and 28-33, and 9 more places -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Knock 'Em Dead Kid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 37, 90, 91, 92, 93 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G, H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-87 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 109-124 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Knock 'Em Dead Kid?

142 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 Knock 'Em Dead Kid hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Knock 'Em Dead Kid?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 37, 90, 91, 92, 93 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED