Black Smoke Rising · Greta Van Fleet

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 56-58, and 4 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BLACK SMOKE RISING · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 39, 55, 59 and 7 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-82.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKDHES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Smoke Rising?

100 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 Smoke Rising hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

104 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Smoke Rising?

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 39, 55, 59 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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