Lonely Is the Word · Black Sabbath

121 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55, 57-61 and 63-69, and 8 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
LONELY IS THE WORD · BARS 57-58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 54, 70, 72, 88, 89 and 106.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 9 sections: 93 keep time, 6 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-21.

PART B
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJEBCS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lonely Is the Word?

116 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 Lonely Is the Word hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Lonely Is the Word?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 54, 70, 72, 88, 89 and 106.

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