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Descending · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 7 OF 22
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 15-17)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesDS6BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Descending on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-18, ride through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, snare through bars 39-40 and ride through bars 41-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-------x-------x-------|
HH |----o-------o-------o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x---x---xx--x---x-x-x-|
Descending -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-75 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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