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Desolation · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 6 OF 75
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 75 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desolation on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-52, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Desolation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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