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Black Thorn · Dave Badiuk

EXERCISE 8 OF 8
Play the whole song with the record
57 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 68 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Thorn on drums

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

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-49, silence through bars 50-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-68.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-|
BD |x---------------|
Black Thorn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

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 7 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED