Black Night · Deep Purple

115 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12-17, and 19 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BLACK NIGHT · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 19 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 4 sections: 83 keep time, 25 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-61.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Night?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Night hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black Night?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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