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Black Sabbath · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 6 OF 50
Fill at bar 1 (a small one)
58 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Sabbath on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
7:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-37, toms through bars 38-56, ride through bars 57-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    68
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Black Sabbath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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