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Blackened Waters · Black Label Society

EXERCISE 3 OF 39
Fill at bar 35
22 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackened Waters on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-44, toms through bars 45-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-61.

The beat

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.

    9                                10
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---o---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x-x-------------|
Blackened Waters -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 7-17 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-35 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Break and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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