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.

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

TEMPO

83 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

278

LENGTH

13:24

DIFFICULTY

47/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-17, snare through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49 and snare through bars 50-65, and 17 more changes after that.

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.

    34               35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-----x---x---x-|

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

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- G, AN (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Through Part G and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 34-65 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 89-98 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 113-181 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Through Part S and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 8 more sittings after that.