Patient Number 9 E standard · OZZY OSBOURNE

218 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 36-37 and 39-44, and 30 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
PATIENT NUMBER 9 E STANDARD · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 54, 102, 110, 118, 126, 130 and 9 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 18 sections: 89 keep time, 15 are fills, 81 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-90.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART D
PART Q
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesEIDQZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Patient Number 9 E standard?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Patient Number 9 E standard hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Patient Number 9 E standard?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 54, 102, 110, 118, 126, 130 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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