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Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 1 OF 87
Groove M -- Part M
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PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
PART M
PART Z
PART I
OUTRO
11 groovesNICEZ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, ride through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-50, ride through bars 51-90 and silence through bars 91-95, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----gg|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- M, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-49 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-25 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-71 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-53 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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