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EXERCISE 14 OF 54
Groove G -- Part G
129 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART C
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
11 groovesBNFCK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BLACK RIVERS FLOW on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-37, ride through bars 38-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-59 and snare through bars 60-75, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
BLACK RIVERS FLOW -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B, J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-116 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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