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Black swan · Wisp

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Run S21 · Chorus (bars 7-50)
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0 / 9 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART A
BREAK 2
PART S9
OUTRO
10 groovesS2AS11S6S9+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black swan on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
29/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-54, snare through bars 55-56 and kick and crashes through bars 57-63, and 5 more changes after that.

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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. Bars 7-114 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black swan?

144 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 swan hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED