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185 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BLACK RIVERS FLOW · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 42, 43, 83, 99, 139 and 3 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 139 · LANDS ON BAR 140

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 15 sections: 132 keep time, 9 are fills, 17 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-73.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
11 groovesBNFCK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BLACK RIVERS FLOW?

127 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 RIVERS FLOW hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in BLACK RIVERS FLOW?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 42, 43, 83, 99, 139 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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