Black Joke · Casiopea

119 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 30-33 and 98-101 -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BLACK JOKE · BARS 30-31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 33, 34, 35 and 18 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 37-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time, 24 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AN
PART AY
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQAFAANI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Joke?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Joke hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black Joke?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 33, 34, 35 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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