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Knock It · Fishbone

Knock It · Fishbone
EXERCISE 9 OF 28
Hold Groove B for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 7-14)
67 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesBCOPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knock It on drums

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

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
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-92.

The beat

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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x---x-------x-----|
Knock It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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