Coma Black · Marilyn Manson

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18 and 35-45 -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
COMA BLACK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 46 and 62.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 8 sections: 94 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-107.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coma Black?

80 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 Coma Black hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Coma Black?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 46 and 62.

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