Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) · Type O Negative

278 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 13:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
13:24
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-39, 42-47 and 66-71, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BLACK NO. 1 (LITTLE MISS SCARE-ALL) · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 49, 53, 56 and 45 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

278 bars across 25 sections: 137 keep time, 51 are fills, 26 are stops and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-24.

PART A
PART G
PART G
BREAK
BREAK 2
PART S
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAMAGDS+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)?

83 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 No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) hard to play on drums?

47 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

278 bars, about 13:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)?

24 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 49, 53, 56 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED
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