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.

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

TEMPO

148 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

194

LENGTH

5:15

DIFFICULTY

51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-108, snare through bars 109-127, toms through bars 128-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-194.

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----|x-----x---x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 27 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 87-115 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 111-126 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
7. Bars 127-167 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.