Fairies Wear Boots · Black Sabbath

184 bars, 9:57, at 74 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.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
9:57
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-47, 53-71 and 121-139 -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14 and 19 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 13 sections: 145 keep time and 25 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 162-183.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNDMAGR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fairies Wear Boots?

74 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 Fairies Wear Boots hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 9:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Fairies Wear Boots?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Black Sabbath drum parts

EVERY BLACK SABBATH CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →