Ashes Of The Wake · Lamb Of God

190 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 7:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
7:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 7, and 4 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
ASHES OF THE WAKE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 14, 24, 33, 51, 52 and 14 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 15 sections: 108 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-134.

CHORUS
PART C
PART H
PART N
PART R
PART S11
PART AB
PART AE
BREAK 2
12 groovesS15ANCR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ashes Of The Wake?

125 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Ashes Of The Wake hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 7:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 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 Ashes Of The Wake?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 14, 24, 33, 51, 52 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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