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Electric Funeral · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 28 OF 49
Fill at bar 49 (a small one)
62 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART O
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
PART Z
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAAGOMAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Electric Funeral on drums

97 bars, 6:00, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
74/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-29 and toms through bars 30-43, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-82 and 87-96 -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    75
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
HH |---------------------------------------x-----x--|
SD |------------x--------------x--------x-----------|
FT |---------------------------------------x--------|
BD |x-----------------------x--------x--------------|
HF |------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----x-----|
Electric Funeral -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 24, 32, 35 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- AG -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-44 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Electric Funeral?

64 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 Electric Funeral hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Electric Funeral?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 24, 32, 35 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED