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Black Star · Carcass

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove L -- Chorus
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0 / 38 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART D
PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLDGS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Star on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, ride through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-33 and snare through bars 34-40, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 57-59, and 8 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---------x---------|
Black Star -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 19, 27, 31 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- L, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-14 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-70 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Star?

106 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Star hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Star?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 19, 27, 31 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED