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Black Bear · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 20 OF 45
Fill at bar 22 (a small one)
54 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Bear on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-22, snare through bars 23-30 and toms through bars 31-32, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-19 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED