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Black Waltz · Kalmah

EXERCISE 24 OF 41
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 49-51)
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0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART D
PART I
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKIFDO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Waltz on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-12, snare through bars 13-27, hi-hat through bars 28-83 and silence through bars 84-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 21-28 and 107-122 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    107
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Black Waltz -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 20, 137, 138 and 139.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-32 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-83 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Waltz?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Waltz hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black Waltz?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 20, 137, 138 and 139.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED