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Black Metal Is Dead · Psychopaths Bloodshed

Black Metal Is Dead · Psychopaths Bloodshed
EXERCISE 15 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
47 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 83 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
BREAK 4
BREAK 5
OUTRO
7 groovesCFS6AS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Metal Is Dead on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-39, hi-hat through bars 40-57, silence through bars 58-67 and ride through bars 68-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 5 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
RD |------------x---|--------x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---xx|--x---x---x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-xx|
Black Metal Is Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-83 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Metal Is Dead?

110 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 Metal Is Dead hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Black Metal Is Dead?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED