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Blackest Eyes · Porcupine Tree

EXERCISE 6 OF 47
Groove B
24 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART O
PART S
PART AC
PART AL
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHACS9OC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackest Eyes on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-37, ride through bars 38-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57 and ride through bars 58-69, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 27 and 30, and 1 more place -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-------x-----x-----------|
Blackest Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 43 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blackest Eyes?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Blackest Eyes hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Blackest Eyes?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 43 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED