Children Of The Grave · Black Sabbath

178 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 9:01 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
9:01
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 47 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 79 BPM
CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 33, 57, 59, 83, 85, 87 and 9 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 164-165 · LANDS ON BAR 166 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 9 sections: 141 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-56.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
8 groovesDS1LMN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Children Of The Grave?

79 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Children Of The Grave hard to play on drums?

48 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 9:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Children Of The Grave?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 33, 57, 59, 83, 85, 87 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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