Black Dog · Samurai

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-31 and 57-70 -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BLACK DOG · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 40, 103, 113, 115, 117 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 17 sections: 79 keep time, 7 are fills, 7 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-36.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesDFPAK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Dog?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Dog hard to play on drums?

53 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Dog?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 40, 103, 113, 115, 117 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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