Black Serotonin · HTS

301 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 187 BPM, 4:51 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
301
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-59, 66-68 and 72-73, and 13 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BLACK SEROTONIN · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 21, 37, 56, 57, 60, 61 and 31 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

301 bars across 21 sections: 165 keep time, 37 are fills, 54 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 227-251.

PART E
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
PART AL
PART AR
PART BH
PART BI
OUTRO 2
16 groovesRLBIEAR+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Serotonin?

187 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Black Serotonin hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

301 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black Serotonin?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 21, 37, 56, 57, 60, 61 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 301 BARS ANALYSED
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