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Black creek · Brent cobb

Black creek · Brent cobb
EXERCISE 4 OF 25
Groove D -- Part D
49 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesABCGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black creek on drums

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.

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
18/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-46, hi-hat through bars 47-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-84, hi-hat through bars 85-86 and snare through bars 87-89, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |----x-------x---|
Black creek -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 82-95 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 95-121 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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