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Blackhole · Architects

EXERCISE 15 OF 61
Run K1 · Part K (bars 9-20)
64 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART A
PART K
CHORUS
PART AC
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesWATKUAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackhole on drums

132 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, snare through bars 19-50 and toms through bars 51-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 38-39, and 9 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----|
Blackhole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 12, 26, 37, 44, 51 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- W, AM -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-93 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blackhole?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blackhole hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 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 Blackhole?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 12, 26, 37, 44, 51 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED