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Black Hole Sun (Drum Tab) · Sound Garden

EXERCISE 22 OF 57
Run J1 · Part J (bars 27-31)
72 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Hole Sun (Drum Tab) on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-67, ride through bars 68-90, silence through bars 91-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-140.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Black Hole Sun (Drum Tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- B, G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-32 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-55 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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