Bridge To Cross · Black Label Society

84 bars, 5:20, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-11 and 14-19, and 10 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BRIDGE TO CROSS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 40, 42, 44 and 11 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BARS 82-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 9 sections: 51 keep time, 17 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCELS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bridge To Cross?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bridge To Cross hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bridge To Cross?

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 40, 42, 44 and 11 more.

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