I Am The Black Wizards · Emperor

186 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
I AM THE BLACK WIZARDS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 42 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 13 sections: 80 keep time, 48 are fills, 10 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-97.

PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART Q
PART AC
PART AH
BREAK
10 groovesBQES13AC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am The Black Wizards?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Am The Black Wizards hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 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 I Am The Black Wizards?

21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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