Suicide Solution · Ozzy Osbourne

115 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 14-15 and 18-23, and 3 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SUICIDE SOLUTION · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 5, 12, 13, 16, 17 and 23 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 12 sections: 57 keep time, 29 are fills, 14 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-103.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART R
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
VERSE
8 groovesEABLUR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suicide Solution?

112 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 Suicide Solution hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Suicide Solution?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 5, 12, 13, 16, 17 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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