God Is Dead? · Black Sabbath

264 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
264
LENGTH
8:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 31 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GOD IS DEAD? · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 19, 24, 31, 69, 70, 71 and 52 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 69-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

264 bars across 18 sections: 155 keep time, 58 are fills, 29 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-156.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART D
PART AR
11 groovesHTDARAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Is Dead??

120 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 God Is Dead? hard to play on drums?

57 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

264 bars, about 8:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 23 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 God Is Dead??

19 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 19, 24, 31, 69, 70, 71 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 264 BARS ANALYSED
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