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The Black Mare · Dragonland

The Black Mare · Dragonland
EXERCISE 10 OF 123
Groove F -- Part F
106 / 254 BARS COVERED
0 / 123 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F, CHORUS 5
CHORUS
PART Q
PART F
PART L
PART Q
PART AL
PART AP
PART B
CHORUS 5
PART BF
OUTRO 2
13 groovesEQBFAPAL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 32
LAND · 32
RUN · 2
JOIN · 18
LINK · 10
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Black Mare on drums

254 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-70, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 16 and 18-20, and 16 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-x-----x-x-|
The Black Mare -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

32 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 21, 33, 45 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 90 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-89 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-96 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-67 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Black Mare?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Black Mare hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mare?

32 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 21, 33, 45 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED