The Illusion Of Power · Black Sabbath

67 bars, 4:28, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-21, 30-37 and 46-48, and 1 more place -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
THE ILLUSION OF POWER · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 9 sections: 35 keep time, 19 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGS9EFI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Illusion Of Power?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Illusion Of Power hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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