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Broken Hands · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 24 OF 33
Join Part N to Part T (bars 108-110)
147 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART T
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART T
OUTRO
5 groovesCFTNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Hands on drums

157 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-43, hi-hat through bars 44-59, snare through bars 60-84, hi-hat through bars 85-107 and snare through bars 108-133, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-18, 44-59 and 85-100, and 1 more place -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-----x---------|--------x---x---|
BD |--x-x-----x-x---|--x---x--xxx----|
Broken Hands -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 19, 27, 35, 36, 37 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 98-111 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 106-134 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Broken Hands?

168 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Broken Hands hard to play on drums?

64 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Broken Hands?

7 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 19, 27, 35, 36, 37 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED