Black horizons ( D standard ) · Dissection

284 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 6:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 95-97, 99-100 and 103-105, and 9 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BLACK HORIZONS ( D STANDARD ) · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 36 and 21 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

284 bars across 19 sections: 227 keep time, 27 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-181.

PART A
PART A
PART L
PART Q
PART R
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART BA
PART F
OUTRO 2
13 groovesABRAOFA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black horizons ( D standard )?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Black horizons ( D standard ) hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

284 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 28 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 horizons ( D standard )?

21 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 36 and 21 more.

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