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Black Night, Golden Circus · Strawberry Girls

Black Night, Golden Circus · Strawberry Girls
EXERCISE 14 OF 66
Groove AB -- Part AB
45 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART AB
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART D
PART A
PART AB
PART AH
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART BO
17 groovesAODBOS1S2+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Night, Golden Circus on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, toms through bars 50-52, hi-hat through bars 53-54, toms through bars 55-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-67, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    91
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--x-x--x-x-x--x|
SD |-xx-x-xx-x-x-xx-|
BD |x--x-x--x-x-x--x|
Black Night, Golden Circus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AN -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BP, BT -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 73-81 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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