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Black Magic · Slayer

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 49 PASSED · 80 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Magic on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-39, silence through bars 40-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-46, hi-hat through bars 47-166, snare through bars 167-169 and toms through bars 170-171, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Black Magic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-47 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 10 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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