Blackened Waters · Black Label Society

61 bars, 3:52, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 24-26 and 28-30, and 2 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BLACKENED WATERS · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 16, 19, 35, 37, 40 and 5 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 8 sections: 39 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-34.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesDVHGC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blackened Waters?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Blackened Waters hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blackened Waters?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 16, 19, 35, 37, 40 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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