NIB · Black Sabbath

147 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 6:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
6:42
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 21 more places -- 24.4% 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
NIB · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 17 sections: 102 keep time and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-147.

PART C
PART G
BREAK
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDGELS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is NIB?

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 NIB hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 6:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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.

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