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Fell On Black Days · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 25 OF 53
Groove O -- Part O
54 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART A
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesDRS7AOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fell On Black Days on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, ride through bars 43-49, toms through bars 50-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61, ride through bars 62-69 and silence through bars 70-88.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----X-------X-------X---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x---x---x-|
Fell On Black Days -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, R -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED