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After All (The Dead) · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 20 OF 30
Fill at bar 153
93 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play After All (The Dead) on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-57, hi-hat through bars 58-61 and kick and crashes through bars 62-63, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
After All (The Dead) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G, J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 93-130 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 144-180 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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