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Sweet Leaf · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 24 OF 66
Groove Q -- Part Q
136 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART R
PART AA
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAAARDAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Leaf on drums

192 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-72, snare through bars 73-86, toms through bars 87-107 and snare through bars 108-128, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 42 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Sweet Leaf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 31, 32, 43, 44, 76, 77 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- A, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-45 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-130 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sweet Leaf?

146 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 Sweet Leaf hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Sweet Leaf?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 31, 32, 43, 44, 76, 77 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED