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Children Of The Grave · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 29 OF 34
2-bar fill at bar 164
160 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
8 groovesDS1LMN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Children Of The Grave on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
9:01
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-89, toms through bars 90-113, snare through bars 114-163 and toms through bars 164-169, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x-----x--|
Children Of The Grave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-18 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 102-117 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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