← SONGS

Blackstorm · Avskogen

Blackstorm · Avskogen
EXERCISE 8 OF 26
Groove D
53 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
10 groovesAGEFL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackstorm on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-43, ride through bars 44-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-48 and snare through bars 49-70, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 6 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Blackstorm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 28, 42, 44 and 57.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 26-48 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Blackstorm?

120 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 Blackstorm hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Blackstorm?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 28, 42, 44 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED