Under The Sun / Everyday Comes And Goes · Black Sabbath

194 bars, 20:14, at 45 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO

45 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

194

LENGTH

20:14

DIFFICULTY

62/100

toms through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-32, toms through bars 33-50, silence through bars 51-55, snare through bars 56-72 and toms through bars 73-76, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-72, 77-79 and 81, and 3 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    57                               58
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------X---------------X-------|--------X---------------X-------|
BD |x-------------------------------|-----x-------x--x----x-------x--|

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 5, 73, 74, 75, 76 and 5 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- K, F -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
2. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 1-36 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 29-77 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. Bars 123-147 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 147-151 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.