SweetLeaf · Black Sabbath

191 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-21, 23-28 and 49, and 10 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 147 BPM
SWEETLEAF · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 34, 42, 44 and 32 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 13 sections: 128 keep time, 38 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-72.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
8 groovesBVAAHAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SweetLeaf?

147 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 SweetLeaf hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 SweetLeaf?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 34, 42, 44 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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