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Fell On Black Days V2 · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 28 OF 52
Fill at bar 42 (a small one)
50 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART P
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fell On Black Days V2 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 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.

    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-|
HF |----g-------------------|
Fell On Black Days V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 14, 16, 17, 21, 26 and 20 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-55 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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