Dying For Love · Black Sabbath

157 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 22 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
DYING FOR LOVE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 51, 75, 91, 97, 98 and 12 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 97-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 131 · LANDS ON BAR 132

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBOS2GLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dying For Love?

108 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 Dying For Love hard to play on drums?

50 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Dying For Love?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 51, 75, 91, 97, 98 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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