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Know Your Enemy · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 6 OF 37
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
60 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
10 groovesELGIC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Know Your Enemy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, silence through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-41, silence through bars 42-44, hi-hat through bars 45-85 and silence through bars 86-88, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Know Your Enemy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-64 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-70 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-112 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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