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The Black (1) · Imminence

EXERCISE 8 OF 51
Groove G
69 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART B
PART I
PART N
PART B
PART B
PART S14
OUTRO
12 groovesADBMNI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Black (1) on drums

163 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-10, ride through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38 and silence through bars 39-42, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 43-49, and 6 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-----x-------------|
The Black (1) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 14, 18, 78, 79, 87, 95 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD, M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-59 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-80 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Black (1)?

120 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 The Black (1) hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 The Black (1)?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 14, 18, 78, 79, 87, 95 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED