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Who Knows · Jimi Hendrix

EXERCISE 4 OF 25
Fill at bar 11 (a small one)
128 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
4 groovesGCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Who Knows on drums

199 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 9:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
9:42
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-35, hi-hat through bars 36-44, snare through bars 45-55, hi-hat through bars 56-60 and snare through bars 61-70, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-43, 56-58 and 71, and 6 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---g---x---|
BD |---x-------x----|
Who Knows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 11, 15, 59 and 157.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- G, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 7-60 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 56-90 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Who Knows?

82 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 Who Knows hard to play on drums?

51 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?

199 bars, about 9:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Who Knows?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 11, 15, 59 and 157.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED