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The Knell And The World · Dawn

EXERCISE 25 OF 43
2-bar fill at bar 36 and 1 more
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0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART E
PART H
PART M
PART R
PART H
PART M
PART R
OUTRO
8 groovesS11HMRE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Knell And The World on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
8:38
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-21, ride through bars 22-31, hi-hat through bars 32-47, ride through bars 48-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-71, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....7.....8.....
CC |X-----------------------------------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Knell And The World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-22 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-35 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

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