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Black Label · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 23 OF 48
Fill at bar 26, 30, 51 and 55 (a small one)
89 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
PART C
PART E
PART H
PART K
PART H
PART E
PART K
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesTKEHS11+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Label on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31, snare through bars 32-39 and ride through bars 40-41, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 92-93, 95-96 and 98-99, and 12 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    92                               93
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------x---------------|--------x-----------------------|
SD |--------------------------------|--------x-----------------------|
BD |--------x-------x---------------|x-----------------------x-------|
Black Label -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 (a two-bar phrase), K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-21 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Label?

90 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 Black Label hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Black Label?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED