Black Bear · Whitechapel

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 35-37 and 40-41, and 2 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BLACK BEAR · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 13, 14, 22, 26, 31, 32 and 19 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 10 sections: 43 keep time, 25 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-66.

PART E
PART K
PART N
PART E
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesZENKC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Bear?

105 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 Black Bear hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Black Bear?

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 13, 14, 22, 26, 31, 32 and 19 more.

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