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Blacklist · Exodus

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART Y
CHORUS 4
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHOAYS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blacklist on drums

234 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-55, ride through bars 56-69, toms through bars 70-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-38, 40-51 and 73-79, and 5 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-----------|
HH |------o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
Blacklist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 39, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H, O -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-40 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 85-106 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 103-137 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blacklist?

150 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 Blacklist hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Blacklist?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 39, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED