Night Of The Long Knives · Malevolent Creation

171 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 19-21 and 23, and 8 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 22 and 39 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 45 are fills and 16 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-94.

PART C
CHORUS
PART P
PART AA
PART AG
PART AM
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART AG
PART P
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIAGPAAAM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Of The Long Knives?

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

Is Night Of The Long Knives hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Night Of The Long Knives?

23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 22 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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