Desolation · Lamb Of God

142 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 10 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DESOLATION · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 24 and 17 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 13 sections: 95 keep time, 23 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-123.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AI
PART K
OUTRO
10 groovesJACQGK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desolation?

130 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 Desolation hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 21 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 Desolation?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 24 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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