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Black Sheep · Metric

EXERCISE 22 OF 38
Groove L
107 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Sheep on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-34, hi-hat through bars 35-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-74, hi-hat through bars 75-130 and kick and crashes through bars 131-139.

The beat

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.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o-----------|
SD |x---x-----------|
T1 |---------xx-----|
FT |-------------xx-|
BD |--x---x-x---x---|
Black Sheep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- I, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-38 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-118 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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