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Six Blade Knife · Dire Straits

EXERCISE 26 OF 29
Run O1 · Outro (bars 96-116)
115 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesAOGDPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Six Blade Knife on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 15 and 22-23, and 22 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 57.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-47 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Six Blade Knife?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Six Blade Knife hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Six Blade Knife?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED