Bark at the Moon · Ozzy Osbourne

156 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-23, 43-47 and 55, and 3 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARK AT THE MOON · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 33, 41, 53 and 23 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 16 sections: 87 keep time, 34 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-90.

PART F
PART K
PART U
PART Z
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO
9 groovesQKSFU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bark at the Moon?

144 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 Bark at the Moon hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bark at the Moon?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 33, 41, 53 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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