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Black Wind, Fire and Steel · Manowar

EXERCISE 8 OF 27
Fill at bar 23, 44, 65 and 86 (a small one)
103 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGBHS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Wind, Fire and Steel on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25, snare through bars 26-34, hi-hat through bars 35-46, snare through bars 47-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-22, 24 and 35-43, and 11 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Black Wind, Fire and Steel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 23, 25, 44, 46, 65, 86 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 22-75 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-141 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Wind, Fire and Steel?

150 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 Wind, Fire and Steel hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Wind, Fire and Steel?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 23, 25, 44, 46, 65, 86 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED