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Black horizons ( D standard ) · Dissection

EXERCISE 1 OF 104
Groove AB -- Chorus
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0 / 104 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black horizons ( D standard ) on drums

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.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

ride through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-28, ride through bars 29-60, hi-hat through bars 61-139, silence through bars 140-146 and hi-hat through bars 147-183, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    96
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Black horizons ( D standard ) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-202 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 284 BARS ANALYSED