Knot · Shyeye

74 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 2:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 87 BPM
KNOT · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 27, 28, 32, 36, 38 and 5 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 14 sections: 46 keep time, 11 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-18.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBMGTH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knot?

87 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Knot hard to play on drums?

56 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Knot?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 27, 28, 32, 36, 38 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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