Black Veins · Adept

143 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28, 128-134 and 136-142 -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BLACK VEINS · BARS 128-129
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 30 and 21 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 19 sections: 78 keep time, 27 are fills, 15 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART W
PART S
PART W
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBWGSH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Veins?

130 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 Veins hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Veins?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 30 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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