Black Trip · Samael

147 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 8 more places -- 44.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BLACK TRIP · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 16, 40, 48, 50 and 13 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 9 sections: 93 keep time, 19 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-97.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART T
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEJTARFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Trip?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Black Trip hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Trip?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 16, 40, 48, 50 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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