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Knuckleduster · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 3 OF 42
Groove A -- Part A
120 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDNKBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Knuckleduster on drums

199 bars at 234 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
234 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46, toms through bars 47-48, snare through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-78 and toms through bars 79-81, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-30 and 33-38, and 10 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Knuckleduster -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 32, 47, 48, 64, 79 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, N -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 11-39 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-130 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Knuckleduster?

234 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Knuckleduster hard to play on drums?

49 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Knuckleduster?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 32, 47, 48, 64, 79 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED