White Knuckles · Five Finger Death Punch

151 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 65-67, and 11 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
WHITE KNUCKLES · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 45 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 11 sections: 84 keep time, 51 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-105.

PART G
PART J
PART M
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesRGACJM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is White Knuckles?

145 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 White Knuckles hard to play on drums?

55 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 White Knuckles?

19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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