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Black Sheep (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) · Metric

EXERCISE 13 OF 38
Join Part D to Verse (bars 34-36)
64 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, VERSE
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
VERSE
PART I
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCFDS1I+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Sheep (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42, toms through bars 43-45, snare through bars 46-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-55, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 55 and 71-77, and 1 more place -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Black Sheep (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 50 and 94.

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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-86 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-91 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Verse and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-85 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-95 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Sheep (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World)?

120 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 (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World)?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 50 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED