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Checkmate · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 5 OF 71
Fill at bar 20 and 53 (a small one)
31 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S12
PART AQ
CHORUS 4
11 groovesCGKAQS12+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Checkmate on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-30 and snare through bars 31-42, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 34, and 9 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Checkmate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 24, 26, 30 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-38 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Checkmate?

120 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 Checkmate hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Checkmate?

17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 24, 26, 30 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED