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Black Mass · Destruction

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove D -- Outro
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Mass on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-48 and ride through bars 49-90, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-45 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED