Fell On Black Days · Soundgarden

88 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 101 BPM, 4:27 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 12-13 and 18-20, and 7 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 101 BPM
FELL ON BLACK DAYS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 14, 16, 17, 21, 30 and 19 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 7 sections: 38 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesDRS7AOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fell On Black Days?

101 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Fell On Black Days hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Fell On Black Days?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 14, 16, 17, 21, 30 and 19 more.

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