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Ashes Of The Wake · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 12 OF 68
Groove C -- Part C
60 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ashes Of The Wake on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
7:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-33, hi-hat through bars 34-35, snare through bars 36-37, hi-hat through bars 38-39 and snare through bars 40-42, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |X-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-|
Ashes Of The Wake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- A, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 34-127 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-63 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-79 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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