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The Black Sheep · Kataklysm

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Black Sheep on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-66, hi-hat through bars 67-72, snare through bars 73-74, hi-hat through bars 75-80 and snare through bars 81-180.

The beat

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.

    43
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
The Black Sheep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-43 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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