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"Black Sun" · Death Cab For Cutie

EXERCISE 19 OF 22
Groove I -- Outro
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PART B
CHORUS
PART A
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCBAIS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Black Sun" on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-68, hi-hat through bars 69-84 and silence through bars 85-92, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 26 more places -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 72 and 76.

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 -- A, B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 66-85 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is "Black Sun"?

88 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 Sun" hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 Sun"?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 72 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED