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Black Sees of Vengeance · Nile

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove G -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
11 groovesGAOBIAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Sees of Vengeance on drums

197 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44 and toms through bars 45-54, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-23 and 33-40, and 11 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Black Sees of Vengeance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 20, 31, 32 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-47 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-58 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Sees of Vengeance?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Black Sees of Vengeance hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sees of Vengeance?

11 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 20, 31, 32 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED