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Black Wings of Desolation · Witch Vomit

EXERCISE 4 OF 51
Groove G -- Part G
79 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
PART G
PART S
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJSGBN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Wings of Desolation on drums

197 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, silence through bars 34-39, hi-hat through bars 40-89, ride through bars 90-105, hi-hat through bars 106-194 and kick and crashes through bars 195-197.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-79, 81-87 and 162-177 -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Black Wings of Desolation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 16, 18, 26, 30, 32 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-50 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-98 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Wings of Desolation?

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 Wings of Desolation hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Wings of Desolation?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 16, 18, 26, 30, 32 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED