black cloud · ERRA

158 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 29 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BLACK CLOUD · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 51, 52, 53, 55 and 10 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 51-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 10 sections: 119 keep time, 16 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-47.

PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART S7
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHMAEBC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is black cloud?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is black cloud hard to play on drums?

52 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 cloud?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 51, 52, 53, 55 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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