Black Thorn · Dave Badiuk

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-48 -- 70.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BLACK THORN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 4 sections: 55 keep time, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-48.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Thorn?

92 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 Thorn hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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