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Self-Made Black Hole · LANDMVRKS

EXERCISE 30 OF 61
Groove AA -- Outro
87 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART AW
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesDAWS12QAI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Self-Made Black Hole on drums

176 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28 and snare through bars 29-34, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 16 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Self-Made Black Hole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 24, 28, 32 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- D, AW -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-46 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-162 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Self-Made Black Hole?

176 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 Self-Made Black Hole hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Self-Made Black Hole?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 24, 28, 32 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED