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Black Chandelier · Biffy Clyro

EXERCISE 31 OF 32
Play the whole song with the record
99 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 110 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
BREAK
OUTRO
7 groovesIEFMC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Chandelier on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-33, snare through bars 34-38, hi-hat through bars 39-57 and ride through bars 58-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 34 and 36, and 15 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
Black Chandelier -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 31, 35, 37, 64, 68, 70 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-28 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-89 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Chandelier?

111 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 Chandelier hard to play on drums?

36 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Chandelier?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 31, 35, 37, 64, 68, 70 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED