Blacken The Cursed Sun · Lamb Of God

210 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 224 BPM, 5:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
224 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 17 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 224 BPM
BLACKEN THE CURSED SUN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 8 more.

LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 11 sections: 105 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 79 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-57.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK
6 groovesDS11LHB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blacken The Cursed Sun?

224 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blacken The Cursed Sun hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 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 Blacken The Cursed Sun?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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