Knocking On Heavens Door Instrumental · Bob Dylan

134 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 21-35 and 41-42, and 12 more places -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
KNOCKING ON HEAVENS DOOR INSTRUMENTAL · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 8 sections: 118 keep time, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-39.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBFEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knocking On Heavens Door Instrumental?

140 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 On Heavens Door Instrumental hard to play on drums?

36 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?

134 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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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