Black Crow On A Tombstone · Satyricon

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-34, 39-50 and 71-80, and 2 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BLACK CROW ON A TOMBSTONE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 114.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 16 sections: 55 keep time, 1 is a fill and 40 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
8 groovesFJGBD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Crow On A Tombstone?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Crow On A Tombstone hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor 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 Crow On A Tombstone?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 114.

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