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N.I.B. · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 14 OF 39
Fill at bar 38 and 79 (a small one)
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BREAK 2
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART O
PART C
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIOCKS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play N.I.B. on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-87, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    24
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--------------------x-----x-----x-----x--x-----|
N.I.B. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-26 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-37 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-54 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 78-92 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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