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Black Or White · Michael Jackson

EXERCISE 10 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
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0 / 12 PASSED · 93 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Or White on drums

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

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 3-42, snare through bars 43-59, hi-hat through bars 60-71, kick and crashes through bars 72-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-93.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 39-63 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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