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Knocking At Your Back Door · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 23 OF 38
2-bar fill at bar 153
181 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knocking At Your Back Door on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-14 and hi-hat through bars 15-210.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Knocking At Your Back Door -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 23-46 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 135-145 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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