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Black History Month · Death From Above 1979

Black History Month · Death From Above 1979
EXERCISE 9 OF 18
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 15-17)
95 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black History Month on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, snare through bars 41-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-96.

The beat

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.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Black History Month -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- F, B, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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