Lord Of This World · Black Sabbath

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-22, 24-35 and 64-75 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
LORD OF THIS WORLD · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 36, 37 and 13 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-35.

PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHKRWC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lord Of This World?

83 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lord Of This World hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lord Of This World?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 36, 37 and 13 more.

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