Sabbra Cadabra · Black Sabbath

243 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 118-125, 158-205 and 208, and 3 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SABBRA CADABRA · BARS 118-119
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 28, 32, 45, 48, 53, 56 and 12 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 19 sections: 150 keep time, 18 are fills, 53 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-106.

PART D
PART B
PART P
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
12 groovesVPBSD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sabbra Cadabra?

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

Is Sabbra Cadabra hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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.

How many fills are in Sabbra Cadabra?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 28, 32, 45, 48, 53, 56 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
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