Black Hole Sun (Drum Tab) · Sound Garden

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12 and 14, and 5 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BLACK HOLE SUN (DRUM TAB) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 28, 31, 50, 54, 58 and 14 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 20 are fills, 22 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-105.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART R
PART AJ
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBRGAJA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Hole Sun (Drum Tab)?

105 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 Hole Sun (Drum Tab) hard to play on drums?

45 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Hole Sun (Drum Tab)?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 28, 31, 50, 54, 58 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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