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Spirit In Black · Slayer

EXERCISE 28 OF 71
Groove P -- Part P
98 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIKAGADE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spirit In Black on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-36, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    75
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|
Spirit In Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 12 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-23 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spirit In Black?

109 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 Spirit In Black hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Spirit In Black?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 12 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED