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You've chosen a difficult object/color to illuminate. Black glossy materials often benefit by exploiting the direct relection of large lightsources. That requires an off-camera lightsource (or reflector).
If you want to learn all there is to know about lighting techniques, I can recommend a very good book: Light Science and Magic. It reads easily, and is highly practical in its approach.