The Black Page

[Gep]

Grabe! 

The Black Page is a piece composed by American musician Frank Zappa known for being extraordinarily difficult to play.

It is said that Frank Zappa wrote "The Black Page" as a challenge for drummer Terry Bozzio; it was given its name because there were so many black dots on the page of sheet music that it was almost all black. It is also said that Bozzio believed he was the only drummer able to play it, until Vinnie Colaiuta played it by heart at his audition for Zappa.

On the live album Zappa in New York, Zappa noted the "statistical density" of the piece. It is written in common time with extensive use of tuplets, including tuplets inside tuplets. At one point there is a half note triplet in which each beat is counted with its own tuplet of 5, 5 and 6. The song ends with a whole note tuplet of 11 and then two half note tuplets of 11. The result is that the melody is played and then played two more times, twice as fast.

[marko21]

eto ba yan?

[Gep]

Yep!

[Kin]

Yeah! Astig yung Black Page.
Isang beses ko palang siya nakitang gawin when Terry Bozio performed it together with Chad Wackerman.
Tindi ng timing nila.