Black Magic Woman · Santana

166 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 22-32 and 35-41, and 1 more place -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BLACK MAGIC WOMAN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 33, 34, 78, 111, 112, 153 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 153 · LANDS ON BAR 154 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 157 · LANDS ON BAR 158

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 16 sections: 132 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-20.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART E
PART L
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBELHK+4Fill 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?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Magic Woman?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 33, 34, 78, 111, 112, 153 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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