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Into the Void · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove M -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Into the Void on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-18, toms through bars 19-25, ride through bars 26-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-37 and ride through bars 38-69, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Into the Void -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- M, P -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-82 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED