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Black Star · Radiohead

EXERCISE 10 OF 22
Groove E
55 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK 3
6 groovesFDAS11S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Star on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-42, hi-hat through bars 43-54 and ride through bars 55-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 25-31 and 47-53 -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 17, 36, 58 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 21-61 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Star?

78 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 Star hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Star?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 17, 36, 58 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED