A Bit of Finger/ Sleeping Village/ Warning · Black Sabbath

488 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 21:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
488
LENGTH
21:40
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 26 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
A BIT OF FINGER/ SLEEPING VILLAGE/ WARNING · BAR 106
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 18, 28, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 27 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

488 bars across 36 sections: 268 keep time, 34 are fills, 40 are stops and 115 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 288-332.

CHORUS 2
PART BB
BREAK 4
28 groovesS29GBBAGT+23Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Bit of Finger/ Sleeping Village/ Warning?

90 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 A Bit of Finger/ Sleeping Village/ Warning hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

488 bars, about 21:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 110 exercises over 27 sittings, about 28 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 A Bit of Finger/ Sleeping Village/ Warning?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 18, 28, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 27 more.

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