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Black Magic Woman · Santana

EXERCISE 26 OF 44
Groove L -- Part L
129 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART E
PART L
PART L
PART L
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBELHK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Magic Woman on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-42, snare through bars 43-66, ride through bars 67-90, snare through bars 91-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-148, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 86-112 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 2 and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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