creepy black · vanrfrapas

42 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 1:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 1 more place -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
CREEPY BLACK · BAR 22
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 21.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 3 sections: 24 keep time, 2 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is creepy black?

93 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 creepy black hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 creepy black?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 21.

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