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Iron Man · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 19 OF 89
Groove N -- Part N
53 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART A
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART AS
PART AN
CHORUS 3
PART BI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDFBMASA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Iron Man on drums

149 bars, 9:08, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
9:08
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22, ride through bars 23-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-108, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-71, 73-75 and 78-80 -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Iron Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 24, 28, 30 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- AS, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BX -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-39 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-43 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Iron Man?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Iron Man hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 9:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Iron Man?

22 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 24, 28, 30 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED