I · Black Sabbath

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 20-22, and 11 more places -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
I · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 62.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 13 sections: 83 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-120.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
BREAK
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDGS1S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 I hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 62.

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