Cornucopia · Black Sabbath

106 bars, 5:51, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-23, 30-41 and 89-100 -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 71 BPM
CORNUCOPIA · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 11 more.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 24-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 78 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-75.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART S
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGXSAAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cornucopia?

71 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 Cornucopia hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Cornucopia?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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