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Children Of The Sea · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 31 OF 45
Groove Y -- Part Y (a two-bar phrase)
69 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
PART S5
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDFS1Y+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Children Of The Sea on drums

99 bars, 5:33, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-45, ride through bars 46-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-68, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 11 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-----xx--x--|
Children Of The Sea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-57 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part S5 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Y and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Children Of The Sea?

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

Is Children Of The Sea hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 Sea?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED