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black iron · Full Of Hell

black iron · Full Of Hell
EXERCISE 23 OF 30
Join Part I to Outro (bars 49-51)
58 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, OUTRO
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEBALI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play black iron on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 1:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-33, silence through bars 34-38, ride through bars 39-42 and toms through bars 43-50, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23 and 25-31 -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
black iron -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 16, 49, 50, 52, 54 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-43 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-63 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is black iron?

137 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 iron hard to play on drums?

57 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 iron?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 16, 49, 50, 52, 54 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED