Black (Live) · Pearl Jam

111 bars, 5:58, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 56-59 and 61, and 1 more place -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BLACK (LIVE) · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 25, 29 and 16 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-82.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEACLPQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black (Live)?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Black (Live) hard to play on drums?

58 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 (Live)?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 25, 29 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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