Descending · Lamb Of God

111 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 187 BPM, 3:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 23-29 and 31-37, and 3 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 187 BPM
DESCENDING · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 13 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 18-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 40-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 19 are fills and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesDS6BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Descending?

187 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 Descending hard to play on drums?

50 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 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 Descending?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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