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Black Ninja · Battle Beast

EXERCISE 21 OF 29
Run A4 · Outro (bars 60-67)
79 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesABKES10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Ninja on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, silence through bars 57-59, hi-hat through bars 60-75, snare through bars 76-83 and toms through bars 84-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 17-20 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 28, 36, 40, 48, 52 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-53 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-57 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Ninja?

84 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 Ninja hard to play on drums?

53 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ninja?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 28, 36, 40, 48, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED