Black Magic Woman · Fleetwood Mac

67 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-13, 17-26 and 30-39, and 2 more places -- 91.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BLACK MAGIC WOMAN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 8 sections: 59 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-54.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1S3S5S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Magic Woman?

120 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 Magic Woman hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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