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Black · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 12 OF 33
Groove K
68 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART B, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART C
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLCBGR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54 and ride through bars 55-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36-37 and 57, and 11 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------------------x---|
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
SD |--gg----x-----gg--g-----x-------|
BD |----x-----------x-----x-----x---|
Black -- 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 111.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED