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Black Sheep · Story Untold

Black Sheep · Story Untold
EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDBIMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Sheep on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, snare through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-50, snare through bars 51-55, hi-hat through bars 56-72 and snare through bars 73-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-10 and 26-27, and 9 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 24, 40, 64, 80, 88 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-28 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-43 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 9 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Sheep?

130 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?

54 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 24, 40, 64, 80, 88 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED