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Black Winter Day · Amorphis

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove D -- Outro 2
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Winter Day on drums

172 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 3:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-167 and toms through bars 168-172.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 17-31 and 33-39, and 36 more places -- 61.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |----o---o---|
BD |x-----x---x-|
Black Winter Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 40, 46, 56, 64, 70 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Winter Day?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Winter Day hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 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 Winter Day?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 40, 46, 56, 64, 70 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED