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Snowblind · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 22 OF 82
Groove K
80 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART C
PART F
PART L
PART O
PART L
PART U
PART W
PART D
PART L
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAUCDLAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snowblind on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-42, ride through bars 43-74 and snare through bars 75-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 19 and 31, and 14 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--x-----xxx|
BD |x-----x--------------x--|
Snowblind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 12, 18, 24 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- I, AU -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-75 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-19 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Snowblind?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Snowblind hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Snowblind?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 12, 18, 24 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED