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Lord Of This World · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 17 OF 48
Groove I
61 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lord Of This World on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-37, ride through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-76, ride through bars 77-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-100.

The beat

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.

    11
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-------------x-----x---x-----x-------|
Lord Of This World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED