Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden · Soundgarden

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 57 and 63, and 9 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BLACK HOLE SUN - SOUNDGARDEN · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 7, 24, 26, 27, 28, 31 and 36 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 15 sections: 60 keep time, 42 are fills, 6 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-21.

PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART E
PART M
PART Z
PART I
OUTRO
11 groovesNICEZ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden?

106 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 - Soundgarden hard to play on drums?

61 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 - Soundgarden?

25 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 7, 24, 26, 27, 28, 31 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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