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Black SSD · DAGames

EXERCISE 20 OF 78
Fill at bar 30 and 70 (a small one)
95 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART H
PART J
PART H
PART S6
PART J
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AH
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
13 groovesAHJAES6+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black SSD on drums

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.

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
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 3-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-28, snare through bars 29-35, hi-hat through bars 36-40 and snare through bars 41-64, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Black SSD -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- P -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-28 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-61 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 65-78 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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