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Blackfield · Blackfield

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackfield on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-39, ride through bars 40-43, snare through bars 44-65 and silence through bars 66-68, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-37 and 44-64 -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Blackfield -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 68.

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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blackfield?

82 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 Blackfield hard to play on drums?

40 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 Blackfield?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED