Black SSD · DAGames

190 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-52, 55-60 and 87-92, and 6 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BLACK SSD · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 44 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 3-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 19 sections: 70 keep time, 50 are fills, 49 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-141.

PART H
PART J
PART H
PART S6
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AH
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
13 groovesAHJAES6+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black SSD?

170 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 SSD 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 SSD?

16 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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