Neon Knights · Black Sabbath

182 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-75, 77 and 79, and 2 more places -- 75.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 192 BPM
NEON KNIGHTS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 93, 94 and 130.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 93-94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 130 · LANDS ON BAR 131
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 6 sections: 133 keep time, 3 are fills, 40 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 158-182.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGS2S4CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Neon Knights?

192 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 Neon Knights 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Neon Knights?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 93, 94 and 130.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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