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Black and Blue · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 17 OF 71
Groove O -- Part O
84 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART O
PART AI
PART AM
PART I
PART S
OUTRO 2
18 groovesFIAQPAM+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 6
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black and Blue on drums

204 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-26, snare through bars 27-38, hi-hat through bars 39-44 and snare through bars 45-46, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 53-54 and 58, and 3 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    156
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------x-x-----x-------|
Black and Blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 66, 85, 89, 137, 138 and 170.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black and Blue?

225 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Black and Blue hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Black and Blue?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 66, 85, 89, 137, 138 and 170.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED