← SONGS

Black (Live) · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 3 OF 57
Groove L -- Part L
25 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black (Live) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-33, ride through bars 34-38, hi-hat through bars 39-55, ride through bars 56-85 and snare through bars 86-95, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x--x--x-|
Black (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- P, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-59 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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