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Black Serotonin · HTS

EXERCISE 23 OF 91
Groove M
141 / 301 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Serotonin on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
301
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
83/100

ride through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-52, snare through bars 53-57, ride through bars 58-85, hi-hat through bars 86-87 and silence through bars 88-99, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    59
    1.......2.......3.......
RD |x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |x-------x-------x-------|
BD |----x-------x-------x---|
Black Serotonin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- R -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BI, BH -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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