Crazy Train · Ozzy Osbourne

165 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23-25, and 12 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
CRAZY TRAIN · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 10 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 12 sections: 125 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-41.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AH
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJABCPAH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crazy Train?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Crazy Train hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Crazy Train?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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