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Black List · Manowar

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove M -- Chorus
0 / 240 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART C
PART J
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMCRJI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black List on drums

240 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
6:51
DIFFICULTY
40/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-86, silence through bars 87-89, hi-hat through bars 90-126, silence through bars 127-129 and hi-hat through bars 130-240.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-43, 56-58 and 71-73, and 26 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Black List -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 6, 7, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- M, J, I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-38 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-46 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-86 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-108 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 116-153 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black List?

140 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 List hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 6:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 List?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 6, 7, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED