Knocking At Your Back Door · Deep Purple

210 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 6:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-26 and 43-44, and 16 more places -- 63.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 124 BPM
KNOCKING AT YOUR BACK DOOR · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 45, 49, 50, 51, 68 and 19 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 49-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 10 sections: 138 keep time, 25 are fills, 26 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-41.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1VFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knocking At Your Back Door?

124 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 Knocking At Your Back Door hard to play on drums?

55 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Knocking At Your Back Door?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 45, 49, 50, 51, 68 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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