After All (The Dead) · Black Sabbath

191 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-68, 70-71 and 74, and 41 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
AFTER ALL (THE DEAD) · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 64, 65, 88, 89, 97, 112 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 11 sections: 65 keep time, 13 are fills, 89 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-142.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART J
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAJS1GS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is After All (The Dead)?

135 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 After All (The Dead) hard to play on drums?

36 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in After All (The Dead)?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 64, 65, 88, 89, 97, 112 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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