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Another Nail For Your Coffin · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove U -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
PART F
PART F
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesUFAKD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Another Nail For Your Coffin on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36 and toms through bars 37-40, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 97-107, 109-115 and 119, and 13 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    97               98
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------x-x-x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |----x-x-------x-|x-----xxx-x-x-x-|
Another Nail For Your Coffin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 20, 29, 30 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- U, F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-21 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-49 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Another Nail For Your Coffin?

150 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 Another Nail For Your Coffin hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in Another Nail For Your Coffin?

16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 20, 29, 30 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED