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Cornucopia · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 10 OF 49
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-9)
59 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cornucopia on drums

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.

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

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

ride through bars 1-23, toms through bars 24-41, ride through bars 42-45, toms through bars 46-48, ride through bars 49-55 and kick and crashes through bars 56-58, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12                                               13
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------------|x-------x-------x-------x-----------------------|
RD |x-----x-----x---x---x---x-----x-----x---x---x---|------------------------------------------------|
SD |------x-----------------------x-----------------|------------------------------x-----x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-------x-------x-------x-----------------------|
Cornucopia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- G, X -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-28 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part S -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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