The Endless Knot · Haken

138 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 5:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 67-81 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE ENDLESS KNOT · BARS 67-68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 15 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 13 sections: 56 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 52 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART M
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
BREAK 2
11 groovesS13ADAGTS2+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Endless Knot?

140 BPM, in 6/4, 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 The Endless Knot hard to play on drums?

60 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Endless Knot?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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