Black History Month · Death From Above 1979

96 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-95 -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BLACK HISTORY MONTH · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 16, 32 and 40.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 6 sections: 86 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-95.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black History Month?

114 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 History Month hard to play on drums?

37 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Black History Month?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 16, 32 and 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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