Black Blank Blah-Blah-Blah · Guilty Gear Xrd Sign Original Soundtrack

141 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 42-44 and 46-48, and 4 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BLACK BLANK BLAH-BLAH-BLAH · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 21 and 48 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 15 sections: 45 keep time, 54 are fills, 25 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-93.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART AM
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
10 groovesFKS6AMS2+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Blank Blah-Blah-Blah?

142 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 Blank Blah-Blah-Blah hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Blank Blah-Blah-Blah?

23 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 21 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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