War Pigs (D Standard) · Black Sabbath

175 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 6:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-33, 35-36 and 99-115, and 1 more place -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
WAR PIGS (D STANDARD) · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 51 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 10 sections: 100 keep time, 57 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-33.

PART A
CHORUS
PART U
PART AG
CHORUS 2
PART AU
PART BB
OUTRO
8 groovesJUAGAAU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Pigs (D Standard)?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 War Pigs (D Standard) hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 6:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 War Pigs (D Standard)?

20 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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