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Neon Knights · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGS2S4CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neon Knights on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-87, silence through bars 88-94, ride through bars 95-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-182.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Neon Knights -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part S4 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 93-131 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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