Black Widow · Children Of Bodom

182 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 27-29, and 11 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BLACK WIDOW · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 26, 42, 47 and 19 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 12 sections: 129 keep time, 28 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-41.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEICOZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Widow?

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

Is Black Widow hard to play on drums?

69 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?

182 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Widow?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 26, 42, 47 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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