The Mob Rules · Black Sabbath

110 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 6 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE MOB RULES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 23 and 17 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 9 sections: 76 keep time, 23 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-59.

PART B
PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKBSES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mob Rules?

140 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 The Mob Rules hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Mob Rules?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 23 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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