Computer God · Black Sabbath

175 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 7:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
7:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59, 93-99 and 101-107, and 11 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
COMPUTER GOD · BAR 93
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 16, 17, 29 and 20 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 10 sections: 100 keep time, 26 are fills, 18 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART A
PART M
PART S8
OUTRO 2
5 groovesRAS8MKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Computer God?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Computer God 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 7:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 Computer God?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 16, 17, 29 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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