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Black Horse and the Cherry Tree · KT Tunstall

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 17 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Horse and the Cherry Tree on drums

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

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
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 2-75.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-48 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED