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Black Sand · Glass Beams
EXERCISE 6 OF 31
4-bar fill at bar 1
84 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Sand on drums

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

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-37, toms through bars 38-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-115.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 7-21 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-36 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-80 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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