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The Mob Rules · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 33 OF 44
Fill at bar 79 (a small one)
103 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mob Rules on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-39, ride through bars 40-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-83, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-47 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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