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Black-Eyed · Placebo

EXERCISE 9 OF 20
Groove J
105 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART M
PART D
PART M
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLMDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black-Eyed on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-30 and snare through bars 31-117.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Black-Eyed -- 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 4.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- L, M -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 28-65 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-117 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED