Knock On Wood · Eddie Floyd

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-20 and 22-24, and 12 more places -- 62.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
KNOCK ON WOOD · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knock On Wood?

108 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 On Wood hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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