The Black Sheep · Kataklysm

180 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 13, and 16 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE BLACK SHEEP · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 26, 34, 50 and 12 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 13 sections: 135 keep time, 18 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-146.

CHORUS
PART I
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEIAAOD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Black Sheep?

170 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 Sheep hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sheep?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 26, 34, 50 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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