Sabbath School · Devon Hendryx

70 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-70 -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
SABBATH SCHOOL · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-70.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCAS1S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sabbath School?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 School hard to play on drums?

29 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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