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Stillborn · Black Label Society

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 34 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBKECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stillborn on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-16, and 11 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-xx-x--|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--xx--xx-x-x|
Stillborn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 38, 39, 45 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-42 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stillborn?

107 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Stillborn hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stillborn?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 38, 39, 45 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED