Know Your Enemy · Rage Against The Machine

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 6:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25, and 22 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 79 BPM
KNOW YOUR ENEMY · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 24, 44, 48 and 8 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 11 sections: 96 keep time, 14 are fills, 7 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-41.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
10 groovesELGIC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Know Your Enemy?

79 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Your Enemy hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Your Enemy?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 24, 44, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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