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I Am The Black Wizards · Emperor

EXERCISE 4 OF 74
Groove Q -- Part Q
30 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART Q
PART Q
PART AC
PART AH
BREAK
10 groovesBQES13AC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am The Black Wizards on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-25, silence through bars 26-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-60, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
I Am The Black Wizards -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-37 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part S4 and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part Q -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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