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I · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 15 OF 22
Join Part G to Break (bars 52-54)
100 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, BREAK
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-23, ride through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35, ride through bars 36-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-53, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-31 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-120 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED