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Beyond The Black Gate · Alpha Current

EXERCISE 4 OF 38
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
24 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBTIQG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beyond The Black Gate on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:26 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 how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
83/100

hi-hat through bars 1-35, ride through bars 36-46, hi-hat through bars 47-71, ride through bars 72-83 and snare through bars 84-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 1 more place -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x---x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Beyond The Black Gate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 43 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B, T -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beyond The Black Gate?

100 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Beyond The Black Gate hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Beyond The Black Gate?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 43 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED