Black Qualls · Thundercat

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 50-52, and 6 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BLACK QUALLS · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 4 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 25-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 4 sections: 60 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-74.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Qualls?

97 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 Qualls hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Qualls?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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