Black Sand · Glass Beams

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 22-24 and 33-36, and 8 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BLACK SAND · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 37, 38 and 2 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 37-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 11 sections: 97 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-96.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKDHE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Sand?

103 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 Sand hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Black Sand?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 37, 38 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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