Black Night, Golden Circus · Strawberry Girls

214 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 3% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91, 93 and 121, and 1 more place -- 2.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BLACK NIGHT, GOLDEN CIRCUS · BAR 91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 34, 35, 46, 47, 49, 50 and 71 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 49-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 72-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 76-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 20 sections: 61 keep time, 77 are fills, 10 are stops and 51 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 143-153.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART D
PART AH
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART BO
17 groovesAODBOS1S2+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Night, Golden Circus?

150 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 Night, Golden Circus hard to play on drums?

55 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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, Golden Circus?

11 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 34, 35, 46, 47, 49, 50 and 71 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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