OZZY OSBOURNE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Crazy Train (Live At Budokan)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-44, 60-62 and 64-78, and 1 more place -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 142 BPM
CRAZY TRAIN (LIVE AT BUDOKAN) · BAR 31

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 51 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 107 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 107, 124 and 142 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Crazy Train (Live At Budokan) use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 142 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 26.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 30-44, 60-62, 64-78 and 130-144. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.

Is the beat in Crazy Train (Live At Budokan) hard?

33 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED