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Delusion Pandemic · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 5 OF 81
Groove AE -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
108 / 242 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S17, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART V
PART S17
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIBAEVM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Delusion Pandemic on drums

242 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 4:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-16, snare through bars 17-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-48, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 26-31 and 41, and 11 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Delusion Pandemic -- 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 5, 8, 9, 17, 24, 25 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- I, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 11 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-21 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-49 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-82 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Delusion Pandemic?

235 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 Delusion Pandemic hard to play on drums?

58 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 17 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 Delusion Pandemic?

17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 24, 25 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED