Black Lungs · Architects

173 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-47, 50-51 and 53-55, and 9 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BLACK LUNGS · BARS 45-46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 14 more.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 17 sections: 58 keep time, 20 are fills, 49 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-89.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART M
PART S11
PART A
PART M
10 groovesCMS11KA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Lungs?

181 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Black Lungs hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Lungs?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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