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BLACK SHOUT · Roselia

EXERCISE 5 OF 61
Groove E -- Part E
74 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
PART Q
PART I
PART AJ
14 groovesAQIBAJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BLACK SHOUT on drums

185 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-8, silence through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30 and ride through bars 31-34, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-67, 79-81 and 83-84, and 2 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |--o---o---o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
BLACK SHOUT -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 49, 50, 57, 58, 60, 85 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- Q, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 33-41 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-68 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-70 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-72 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-107 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BLACK SHOUT?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is BLACK SHOUT hard to play on drums?

55 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 SHOUT?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 49, 50, 57, 58, 60, 85 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED