Black Friday (AI) · Tom Odell

20 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 0:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
20
LENGTH
0:57
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12 and 14-16 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BLACK FRIDAY (AI) · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 9, 13 and 20.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 20
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

20 bars across 5 sections: 9 keep time, 4 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-17.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
5 groovesEBS1S4S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Friday (AI)?

84 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 Friday (AI) hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

20 bars, about 0:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor 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 Friday (AI)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 9, 13 and 20.

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