The Knell And The World · Dawn

146 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 121 BPM, 8:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
8:38
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 27-29 and 52-54, and 1 more place -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 121 BPM
THE KNELL AND THE WORLD · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 11, 16, 21, 25, 26, 30 and 24 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 11 sections: 31 keep time, 30 are fills, 6 are stops and 72 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-20.

PART E
PART H
PART M
PART R
PART H
PART R
OUTRO
8 groovesS11HMRE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Knell And The World?

121 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Knell And The World hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 8:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 21 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 The Knell And The World?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 11, 16, 21, 25, 26, 30 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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