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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

160 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

243

LENGTH

6:05

DIFFICULTY

55/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-81, kick and crashes through bars 82-85, ride through bars 86-109, hi-hat through bars 110-117 and snare through bars 118-125, and 6 more changes after that.

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.

    118                      119
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
SD |------------x--x--------|------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x-----------x--|---x-----x-----x-----x--|

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

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- V, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 11-25 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Bars 16-39 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 36-71 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 67-87 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.