Read Black & White · Select Start

135 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 114 BPM, 3:33 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 33-35, and 16 more places -- 44.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
READ BLACK & WHITE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 20 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 26 are fills, 8 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART T
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBMFAS11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Read Black & White?

114 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Read Black & White hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Read Black & White?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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