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black cloud · ERRA

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove M -- Outro
0 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play black cloud on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-73, snare through bars 74-95, toms through bars 96-98 and silence through bars 99-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-|
black cloud -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M, N -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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