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Sleeping Village / A Bit of Finger · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove K -- Outro 2
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0 / 21 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKFDAS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sleeping Village / A Bit of Finger on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-5 and ride through bars 6-78.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x-x---x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-----|
Sleeping Village / A Bit of Finger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- K, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-27 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED