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Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky · Balmora

EXERCISE 19 OF 103
Groove G -- Part G
54 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 103 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AP
PART AR
OUTRO 2
17 groovesCARAFRA+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 6
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky on drums

172 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-47 and toms through bars 48-49, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-16 and 26-32, and 3 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 25, 33 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 14-29 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky?

200 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 Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky?

24 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 25, 33 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED