Black Mass · Destruction

95 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-44, 49-51 and 54-56, and 2 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BLACK MASS · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 90.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 7 sections: 85 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-89.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Mass?

180 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 Mass hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 90.

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