Paint It Black · The Black Dahlia Murder

104 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29 and 39-45 -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PAINT IT BLACK · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 13, 15, 17, 30, 38 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 16 sections: 63 keep time, 15 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-84.

PART N
PART P
PART N
PART A
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesINWUG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paint It Black?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Paint It Black hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Paint It Black?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 13, 15, 17, 30, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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