Black Magic · Slayer

173 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-53, 55-61 and 63-65, and 16 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BLACK MAGIC · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 42, 44, 54, 62, 66, 70 and 13 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 8 sections: 136 keep time, 19 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-113.

PART A
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART U
OUTRO
7 groovesJUADB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Magic?

177 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 Magic hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Magic?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 42, 44, 54, 62, 66, 70 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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