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The Blackstone · Comeback Kid

EXERCISE 20 OF 46
Fill at bar 49
93 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART B
PART U
OUTRO
10 groovesOBUMG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Blackstone on drums

151 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, snare through bars 28-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-49, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 12-18 and 68, and 2 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
The Blackstone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 49, 73 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, O -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-22 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-32 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-123 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 46-120 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-99 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Blackstone?

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

Is The Blackstone hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blackstone?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 49, 73 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED