Black Horse and the Cherry Tree · KT Tunstall

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-14, 16 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BLACK HORSE AND THE CHERRY TREE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 67 and 71.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 8 sections: 60 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-20.

CHORUS
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Horse and the Cherry Tree?

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 Horse and the Cherry Tree 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Black Horse and the Cherry Tree?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 67 and 71.

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