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Black Trip · Samael

Black Trip · Samael
EXERCISE 10 OF 47
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-11)
115 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Trip on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, ride through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-80, ride through bars 81-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------------------x---|
Black Trip -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-89 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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