Who Knows · DANIEL CAESAR

49 bars, 3:16, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24-29 and 32-41 -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
WHO KNOWS · BAR 24
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 5 sections: 36 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-41.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who Knows?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Who Knows hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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