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Blacken The Cursed Sun · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 20 OF 38
Groove J (a two-bar phrase)
103 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK
6 groovesDS11LHB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blacken The Cursed Sun on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
224 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-50, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Blacken The Cursed Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-41 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-98 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 104-141 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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