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Lady Evil · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 31 OF 37
Run T1 · Part T (bars 93-111)
132 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART H
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJTCHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lady Evil on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-83, toms through bars 84-92, hi-hat through bars 93-133 and snare through bars 134-135.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 19 and 21, and 33 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-o-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x-x---|
Lady Evil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 32, 33, 35 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-85 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lady Evil?

124 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 Lady Evil hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Lady Evil?

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 32, 33, 35 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED