Black Or White · Michael Jackson

93 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-33, 35-40 and 60-64, and 3 more places -- 71.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BLACK OR WHITE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 93.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 4 sections: 87 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-41.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Or White?

115 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 Or White hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Black Or White?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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