Black creek · Brent cobb

135 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
18/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 22 and 46, and 10 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BLACK CREEK · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 90, 91, 92 and 134.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 11 sections: 108 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-50.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesABCGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black creek?

160 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 creek hard to play on drums?

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black creek?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 90, 91, 92 and 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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