Into the Void · Black Sabbath

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42-49, and 12 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
INTO THE VOID · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25 and 23 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 19-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 29 are fills, 10 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-64.

PART C
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
10 groovesMCXEN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Into the Void?

104 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 Into the Void hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Into the Void?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25 and 23 more.

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