Widow · Black Rose

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 6 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WIDOW · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 33, 34, 36, 37, 42 and 1 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 6 sections: 53 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-62.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesHBLS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Widow?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Widow hard to play on drums?

59 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Widow?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 33, 34, 36, 37, 42 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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