Black-Eyed · Placebo

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-32, 49-64 and 85-116 -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BLACK-EYED · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 6 sections: 107 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-116.

PART D
PART M
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLMDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black-Eyed?

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-Eyed hard to play on drums?

60 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?

117 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Black-Eyed?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

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