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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 20 OF 55
Groove N
111 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART AA
PART AA
9 groovesFAAIAFT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sabbath Bloody Sabbath on drums

181 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-16 and ride through bars 17-18, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 12 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------x-----------|
RD |---x--x--x-----x--x--x--|
T1 |x-----------x-----------|
BD |X--x--x--x--X--x--x--x--|
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 23, 24, 28 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- F, AA -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sabbath Bloody Sabbath?

135 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 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 23, 24, 28 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED