Black Rose · SKARS

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 2:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-16 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 55.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BLACK ROSE · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 4 sections: 46 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-56.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Rose?

101 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 Rose hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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