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Black Black Heart (rock version) · David Usher

EXERCISE 16 OF 25
Run G1 · Part G (bars 40-48)
66 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBOGS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Black Heart (rock version) on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, ride through bars 43-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52, ride through bars 53-55, hi-hat through bars 56-68 and snare through bars 69-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-13, 16-17 and 20-33, and 5 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Black Black Heart (rock version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 18, 34, 38, 46, 51 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, O -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 57-77 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Black Heart (rock version)?

92 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 Black Heart (rock version) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Black Heart (rock version)?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 18, 34, 38, 46, 51 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED