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SweetLeaf · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 9 OF 74
Groove C
96 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SweetLeaf on drums

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.

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

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

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-72, snare through bars 73-80, hi-hat through bars 81-82 and snare through bars 83-86, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----|
SweetLeaf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-81 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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