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Black ( Better Version) · Sevendust

EXERCISE 11 OF 47
Groove D
73 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART P
OUTRO
6 groovesCLPEU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black ( Better Version) on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-84, snare through bars 85-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 15-16 and 19-20, and 10 more places -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |xxx--x-xx-xx-xx-|
Black ( Better Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 18, 22, 27, 28, 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-52 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-86 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-100 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black ( Better Version)?

108 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 Black ( Better Version) hard to play on drums?

64 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 ( Better Version)?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 18, 22, 27, 28, 30 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED