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Black Lodge · Anthrax

EXERCISE 3 OF 36
Groove E -- Part E
70 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
PART B
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHKFBE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Lodge on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-34, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31-33 and 35, and 11 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 28, 36, 52, 80, 84 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-29 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-81 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Lodge?

105 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 Lodge hard to play on drums?

55 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?

145 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Lodge?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 28, 36, 52, 80, 84 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED