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Know · System of a Down

EXERCISE 19 OF 53
Fill at bar 38, 58 and 104 (a small one)
69 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFICSK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Know on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-62, silence through bars 63-64, snare through bars 65-68, toms through bars 69-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 35 and 37, and 12 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x-x--x--x|
BD |x--x------xx----|
Know -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 12, 26, 36, 38, 40 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- F, S -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-23 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-41 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-63 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Know?

152 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 Know hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 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 Know?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 12, 26, 36, 38, 40 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED