N.I.B. · Black Sabbath

159 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 7:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 28-29 and 32-34, and 15 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
N.I.B. · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 79, 88, 89, 90, 91 and 4 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 88-91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 18 sections: 116 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-104.

BREAK 2
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART C
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIOCKS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is N.I.B.?

88 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 N.I.B. hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 N.I.B.?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 79, 88, 89, 90, 91 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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