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Black Joke · Casiopea

EXERCISE 8 OF 52
Groove I -- Part I
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Joke on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, ride through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29 and ride through bars 30-34, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30                                                               31
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
HH |----------------------------o-------------------------------o---|----------------------------o---------------------------o-------|
FT |------------x---x---------------------------x---x---------------|------------x---x---------------------------x---x-------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
HF |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
Black Joke -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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