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Paint It Black · The Black Dahlia Murder

EXERCISE 24 OF 59
Groove L -- Part L
61 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART L
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paint It Black on drums

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.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
88/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-22, snare through bars 23-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-38, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-----------x---x-------|
Paint It Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-89 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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