Black Sabbath · Black Sabbath

119 bars, 7:21, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
7:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-84 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BLACK SABBATH · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 7, 28, 29, 32, 52 and 9 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 10 sections: 87 keep time, 15 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-101.

PART E
PART I
PART N
PART C
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesADILCAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Sabbath?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Black Sabbath hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 7:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high 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 Black Sabbath?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 7, 28, 29, 32, 52 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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