Sweet Leaf (Standard tuning) · Black Sabbath

194 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-28, 45-72 and 131, and 5 more places -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
SWEET LEAF (STANDARD TUNING) · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 124 and 126.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 10 sections: 170 keep time, 2 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 168-194.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACIMNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Leaf (Standard tuning)?

148 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 (Standard tuning) hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 Sweet Leaf (Standard tuning)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 124 and 126.

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