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Hand Of Doom · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART W
PART AF
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCWAFUS3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hand Of Doom on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
8:45
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-21, toms through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-39 and kick and crashes through bars 40-41, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------r--------------r--------r-----------|
BD |x--------------------------------x-----x-----g--|
Hand Of Doom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part W -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part W -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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