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Knot · Shyeye

Knot · Shyeye
EXERCISE 7 OF 35
Join Chorus to Break (bars 11-13)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knot on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, snare through bars 28-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x----x------|
Knot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase), G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-24 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 23-33 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-53 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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