Knock It · Fishbone

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 32 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
KNOCK IT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 41, 65 and 2 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 5 sections: 79 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-64.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesBCOPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knock It?

98 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 Knock It 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Knock It?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 41, 65 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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