Black Sheep · Metric

139 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-57, 99-105 and 107-109, and 1 more place -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BLACK SHEEP · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 42, 50, 58, 82, 94, 98 and 3 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 13 sections: 96 keep time, 10 are fills, 14 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-113.

PART B
PART D
PART E
VERSE
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART K
9 groovesIGBDE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Sheep?

124 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 Sheep hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sheep?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 42, 50, 58, 82, 94, 98 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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