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Blue On Black · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 8 OF 21
Groove H
53 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBFS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue On Black on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-57, toms through bars 58-61, hi-hat through bars 62-65, silence through bars 66-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 30-32, and 5 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14                               15
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|x-----------x-------x-------x---|
Blue On Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 53, 58, 59, 60, 61 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 58-72 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blue On Black?

78 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 Blue On Black hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blue On Black?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 53, 58, 59, 60, 61 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED