Sleeping Village / A Bit of Finger · Black Sabbath

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-78 -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SLEEPING VILLAGE / A BIT OF FINGER · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 19.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 10 sections: 63 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-78.

COUNT-IN
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKFDAS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sleeping Village / A Bit of Finger?

90 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 Sleeping Village / A Bit of Finger hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Sleeping Village / A Bit of Finger?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 19.

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