Hand Of Doom · Black Sabbath

188 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 8:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
8:45
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 14-15 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
HAND OF DOOM · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 25 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 16-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 8 sections: 133 keep time, 31 are fills, 5 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-93.

CHORUS
PART W
PART AF
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCWAFUS3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hand Of Doom?

86 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 Hand Of Doom hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 8:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 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 Hand Of Doom?

9 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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