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Black War's Face · Dmitriy Beznosow

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 36 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJEBAM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black War's Face on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-42, snare through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-66, ride through bars 67-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-53, 55-57 and 59-61, and 12 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Black War's Face -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 34, 64, 74, 82, 90 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- J, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-51 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-75 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-122 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black War's Face?

97 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 War's Face hard to play on drums?

45 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 War's Face?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 34, 64, 74, 82, 90 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED