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Black Crow On A Tombstone · Satyricon

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove G -- Part G
61 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesFJGBD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Crow On A Tombstone on drums

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.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-56, hi-hat through bars 57-74 and snare through bars 75-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
Black Crow On A Tombstone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-15 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-85 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED