black hair · Alex G

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-28, and 4 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BLACK HAIR · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 58 and 62.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 5 sections: 52 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-18.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is black hair?

104 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 hair hard to play on drums?

44 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 hair?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 58 and 62.

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