Katie's Song · Black Sun

66 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 13 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
KATIE'S SONG · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 10.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-59.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
BREAK 2
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
7 groovesEGS1S4L+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Katie's Song?

127 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Katie's Song hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Katie's Song?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 10.

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