Fell On Black Days V2 · 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 / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 19-20 and 24-25, and 3 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 101 BPM
FELL ON BLACK DAYS V2 · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 14, 16, 17, 21, 26 and 20 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

10 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: 36 keep time, 26 are fills, 1 is a stop and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART P
PART T
PART C
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesDS7PTS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fell On Black Days V2?

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 V2 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 V2?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 14, 16, 17, 21, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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