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God Is Dead? · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 5 OF 97
Groove D -- Part D
56 / 264 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Is Dead? on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
264
LENGTH
8:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100

ride through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-68, toms through bars 69-72, ride through bars 73-76 and toms through bars 77-80, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
God Is Dead? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- H, AD -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-88 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-121 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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