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Black Mass · Bewitched

EXERCISE 19 OF 36
Groove S
93 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGLZS1B+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Mass on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-33 and silence through bars 34-39, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 32, and 5 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Black Mass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 29, 77 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G, Z -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-46 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Mass?

145 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 Mass hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 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 Mass?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 29, 77 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED