Black Star · Yngwie Malmsteen

80 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-62 and 64-80 -- 97.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BLACK STAR · BAR 14
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 2 sections: 68 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-80.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Star?

121 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?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 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.

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